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HUD Secretary Scott Turner told viewers that falling mortgage rates are finally opening the door for millions of Americans to refinance and buy homes again, and he insisted HUD is doubling down on rooting out fraud so taxpayer dollars go to citizens who earned them. This administration’s message is simple: homeownership belongs to Americans first, not to illegal entrants or bureaucrats with soft-on-fraud agendas.
To make that promise real, Turner and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the “American Housing Programs for American Citizens” memorandum, a formal interagency pact designed to stop taxpayer-funded housing from being misused to benefit those here illegally. Conservatives should applaud a federal agency finally putting American families ahead of open-borders politics and bureaucratic cowardice.
HUD didn’t stop at rhetoric — the department ordered nationwide verification of immigration eligibility, pushed for uploads to the SAVE system, and warned public housing agencies they will be sanctioned and funding recaptured if they fail to follow the law. This is how you restore integrity: data, enforcement, and consequences, not feel-good loopholes that reward lawbreaking.
The department’s own review uncovered a staggering $5.8 billion in potentially improper rental aid payments, flagging more than 200,000 tenants for issues including deceased people still receiving benefits and thousands of possible noncitizen recipients. These are not paper-pencil accounting errors — they are a wake-up call about the scale of waste and the human cost of lax oversight under the prior management.
Even the HUD Office of Inspector General found the department failed to comply with payment-integrity laws and let at least $212 million go to entities without proper registrations, a symptom of broken governance and weak controls. If Washington bureaucrats won’t follow basic financial safeguards, elected officials must replace personnel and systems that allowed this to fester.
Hardworking Americans deserve honest stewardship of their tax dollars and the chance to own a piece of the American dream without competing against illegal immigration or fraud. That means backing policies that cut red tape for builders, enforce immigration and eligibility laws, and prosecute crooked actors instead of protecting them with political cover.
It’s time for patriots to stay loud and persistent: demand audits, insist on prosecutions, and hold HUD and other agencies accountable until every dollar is serving an eligible American family. This is about more than balance sheets — it’s about defending the next generation’s right to a secure home, proud citizenship, and a government that puts its people first.
