A post by Pat

It’s a federal crime to rent your house to a human smuggler. You could lose your property. I came across this story about the government choosing not to seize these “drop houses” because there is no equity in the house given the decline in the housing market. I got to thinking about the irony of this situation.

The human who was smuggled in by the human smuggler, i.e., the illegal immigrant, could theoretically have gotten a subprime mortgage to buy the house that was confiscated from the owner because the owner rented to the smuggler who brought the illegal into the country. That whole subprime thing is all broken now so there is talk about coming to the aid of the “victims” of predatory lenders. It is therefore possible that the human who was smuggled in can continue living in the house that was confiscated from the owner who rented to the human smuggler and the erstwhile owner of the confiscated house will pick up the tab for the bad mortgage so the person who was at the center of all the associated crimes can live trouble free in his house.

What a country.

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  1. jeweytunes says:

    This is just another example of, and at the same time a consequence of, being a nation that no longer enforces our laws. When San Francisco can get away with giving federal law the finger and effectively elevate the interests of criminals over the rights/safety of citizens, we can see how far down the slippery slope we’ve fallen.

    Tammy makes a good point that the current economic debacle might throw some water on McCain’s amnesty fire. Let’s hope so. But things wouldn’t even have gotten as far as all these examples if we’d secured the border and enforced those most basic laws long ago. J

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