Former President Donald Trump slammed Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday for paying residents to take illegal aliens into their homes.
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In a video posted to Truth Social, Trump said, “In Michigan, radical left Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer is handing out $500 a month in cash to anyone who accepts illegal aliens into your homes. Isn’t that nice? She’s calling this scam the ‘Newcomer Rental Subsidy.’ In other words, she’s calling illegal immigrants, many coming from jails, many coming from mental institutions, many are terrorists — she’s calling them ‘newcomers.’”
“And it’s all funded by federal taxpayer dollars distributed by crooked Joe Biden. He’s the most crooked president we’ve ever had and he’s by far the worst president we’ve ever had. In other words, Biden and Whitmer are selecting and stealing your money to give free housing to illegal alien migrants and then asking you to quarter these foreign armies in — that’s what they are, they’re armies, they’re coming in at levels that we’ve never seen ever in our country before — but quarter these foreign armies in the spare bedroom that you happen to have next to your children,” Trump added.
The GOP presumptive nominee went on to say that allowing unvetted illegal aliens to stay in people’s homes is a bad idea which shows just how Biden and Democrats in government care more about illegal immigrants than they care about Americans.
“Biden, Whitmer, and the radical Left Democrats care more about illegal aliens than about American citizens or our military, our vets, they care much more about illegal aliens. Thanks to their inflation disaster, you can’t afford to buy a house, you can’t afford the increase in rent — yet they’re taking your money and giving it to so called ‘newcomers,’ it’s such a nice name, who illegally charged across our border,” he added.
Calling Whitmer’s move “a scandal” and “a disgusting insult to hardworking American taxpayers,” Trump promised to put an end to it if he becomes president, as he will set up “the largest and most efficient deportation effort in the history of our country — bigger than that of Dwight Eisenhower, a president from a long time ago.”
“And when I take the oath of office, America is going to be strong, powerful, and rich again. When I’m president, instead of asking you to cram illegal aliens into your homes, I’ll tell the illegal aliens that they must not come into our country. They have to go back to their homes in their countries,” he stated.
The program in question, the ‘Newcomer Rental Subsidy program,’ gives eligible households who participate $500 per month, which could run up to $6,000 annually.
The program has already faced opposition on the right, with Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) deriding it as a “slap in the face” to the state’s taxpayers. According to her, the program “will only burden the U.S. taxpayer with higher costs.”
