It gets harder and harder to keep a straight face while listening to Obama administration.
Case in point: Janet Napolitano has announced that the people who were once called “illegal aliens” and were then called “illegal immigrants” and were then called “undocumented immigrants” are now to be called “newly-arrived asylum seekers.”
Here’s how Reuters reports the story:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said illegal immigrants ranging from criminals to newly arrived asylum seekers would be held in different facilities according to the risk they pose.
“This is a system that encompasses many different types of detainees, not all of whom need to be held in prison-like circumstances,” Napolitano told a conference call.
Referring to noncriminals such as newly arrived asylum seekers, Napolitano said, “We will begin efforts to house these populations near immigration service providers and pursue different options like converted hotels or residential facilities for their detention.”
And now, as they say, the second shoe dropping, courtesy of Bloomberg:
Hotel foreclosures in California more than tripled in the first nine months of this year as business travelers and vacationers cut spending.
Foreclosures including the 400-room St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana Point climbed to 47 in January through September from 15 a year earlier.
Properties in default more than quadrupled to 259, Irvine, California-based Atlas Hospitality Group said in a statement. Atlas specializes in selling hotels. The survey didn’t include states other than California.
Ahhhh, the administration’s economic program is working to perfection.
Just when it needs lots of “non-jail” facilities to house the “newly-arrived asylum seekers,” hundreds of hotels become available.
(By the way, we’re sure the liberal snobs in Dana Point, California will love the thought of welcoming hundreds of those newly-arrived asylum seekers to their quaint seaside community.)
Source: Reuters, Bloomberg
