As our economy tanks and more and more illegal aliens stream across the southern border, America's homeless problem has been growing exponentially. This has caused some people to seek shelter on properties that aren't theirs, trespassing and taking up residency on properties that don't belong to them.
These people are called "squatters," or will be until the Democrats and corporate media come up with a nice politically correct name for them, which you know is coming.
Squatters can be dangerous as they bring with them all sorts of criminal behaviors, including drug use, assault, theft, and more. In a normal world, once squatters are discovered, all it takes is a quick call to the authorities to have them removed.
But blue states aren't normal worlds.
In states like Washington, they actually utilize taxpayer dollars to keep squatters housed in homes, including multi-million dollar mansions they commandeered. As Newsweek reported, politicians creating an environment that effectively spits on the rights of property owners and pays for squatters to take the residencies of others:
Reagan Dunn, the vice-chair of the Metropolitan King County Council, criticized a taxpayer-funded program that awarded $88,000 to keep a family in a $2 million home rent-free.
The program, funded by King County taxpayers, was initially intended for COVID-19 hardship cases, and it is now under scrutiny for misuse.
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Dunn said, "$80,000 to a serial squatter is not what these programs are intended for." The council member's comments follow a case involving a "serial squatter," Sang Kim—who, reports say, has not paid rent for multiple years.
According to the Fox News segment, Kim, along with his wife and son, moved into the Bellevue home in August 2022, claiming an income of $400,000. He paid one month's rent before ceasing payments, though he continued to acquire assets, the outlet said.
Despite homeowner Jaskaran Singh, an Indian immigrant and recent U.S. citizen, winning three eviction cases, the Housing Justice Project has compensated Kim for unpaid rent totaling $88,000, enabling him to reside in the multimillion-dollar home rent-free.
This is just one story out of many. In California and New York, squatters are entrenched in homes they've stolen and are difficult to remove thanks to legal protections given to them by politicians. Businesses in blue states have opened that find creative ways to evict and force squatters from homes without having to get the state involved.
(READ: A California Company Is Making a Business Out of Kicking Squatters Out of Properties)
Meanwhile, in red states, various things are being done to ensure squatters don't get a foothold anywhere. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that combats the idea of "squatters' rights," noting that Florida is putting an end to the "squatters scam" in the state.
In Texas, Greg Abbott suggests lethal force against squatters is a viable option.
Personally, I'm with Abbott. While I have no desire to actually use lethal force against anyone, that squatters should have any kind of state protection at all is lunacy. It's so ridiculous that, as reported by the Washington Times, even Democrat John Fetterman doesn't see how "squatters' rights" make any sense:
"Squatters have no rights," Fetterman said. "How can you even pretend that this is anything other than you’re just breaking the law?"
He said that when he was a mayor in Pennsylvania, squatters were an issue he often dealt with. He called the idea of squatter’s rights "wild."
"It’s wild that if you go away on a long trip, for 30 days, and someone breaks into your home and suddenly they have rights," he said. "This is crazy. Like if somebody stole your car, and then they held it for 30 days, then somehow you now have some rights?"
He's correct. Squatters have no rights. At the end of the day, what "squatters' rights" really are, when stripped of all the window dressing and Democrat newspeak, is "criminal rights."
It is criminal to trespass and steal someone's property and claim it as your own. If property isn't a respected concept, then we don't have a society. Property is one of the most basic human concepts we had long before we established nations and while still roaming the land as hunter-gatherers. It's from the concept of property that we created the idea of the United States. What was ours was being stolen from us without our say, and it triggered a war.
Democrats play a dangerous game when they empower criminality like this. People are going to get hurt financially and physically. Moreover, they only empower criminals by allowing them to feel safe while committing crimes. They are giving criminals the okay to disrespect one of the most basic concepts of humanity, and you don't do that without causing a lot of problems.
The squatter problem underlies a lot of the issues with today's Democrat Party. It's a summation, in a way. They have no respect for Americans, their rights, their well-being, or their opinions, but they do seem to have a soft spot for illegality.
It makes you wonder who the bigger criminals in the room are.
