If surging crime, unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, and a deadly fentanyl epidemic wasn’t enough, now we can add a new and rising threat to the American way of life: squatters.
In numerous states across the country, criminals have invaded American homes, squatting on private property without paying rent.
Thanks to social media, wild cases of squatters refusing to leave homes they are not renting and do not owned have surfaced from Atlanta to Oregon. And, thanks to social media, instructional how-tos telling would-be squatters how to undermine private property rights are popping up everywhere.
In many cases, law enforcement sides with the criminals.
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“This is insane. If you don’t even own your family home, what do you own that can’t be taken from you by the government,” said Elon Musk on X.
In late February, a New York woman, Adele Andaloro, was trying to sell the million-dollar house in Queens that she inherited from her parents.
She discovered that multiple squatters had moved into her private property, and attempted to remove them.
Andlaoro went to the house armed with the deed, and hired a locksmith to replace the locks.
The squatters inside the house, who claimed to have moved in only two days previously, then called the police on Andaloro.
Police initially took the squatters off the property, but the criminals quickly returned and forced their way back into the house past its legal owner.
The men then called the police again, and this time, Andlaoro was arrested and taken away.
Police considered the problem a dispute between a tenant and landlord, and New York law prohibits a landlord from changing the locks on a rental property to evict the tenant.
Andlaoro, however, never leased the property to the squatters.
“This is my home,” said Andaloro, “it’s not fair that I, as the homeowner, should be having to go through this.”
Despite Andaloro’s arrest, hers is not the most tragic squatting incident in New York in recent days.
Earlier this month, Nadia Vitel, a 52-year-old New York woman, went into her deceased mother’s Manhattan apartment, which had been vacant for roughly four months, to prepare it for a family friend to move in.
She discovered two squatters living in the apartment, who then beat Vitel to death, hid her body in a duffle bag, and stole her car.
The two suspects remained at large until Friday, when they were found by police in Pennsylvania.
Police revealed that the suspects taken into custody were the 18-year-old Kensly Alston, and the 19-year-old Halley Tejada.
Tejada had been arrested for assault in February, just one month before she was free to murder Vitel.
The epidemic of squatter crime is not exclusive to New York City.
Earlier this month, a Washington landowner, Jaskaran Singh, organized a protest outside his own property demanding that a squatter leave his rental property
“He paid for the first month [or] two months rent and basically, after that, he’s living rent-free,” said Singh, “I’m not getting justice, justice is delayed, I would say, justice is denied.”
Singh began renting the property to a family nearly two years ago, in the summer of 2022.
Although the tenant gave Singh the initial down payment, two months of rent, he has not paid rent a single other time during his stay in Singh’s private property.
Singh began eviction proceedings, and the tenants were offered legal aid by the Housing Justice Project (HJP), gave Singh the back pay owed by the tenant, and paid him for three months, in which the tenant was meant to find new housing.
The tenant did not move out, and Singh has not received any payments since May 2023.
The tenant was scheduled for eviction in January of this year, but HJP requested a delay, and court proceedings have been pushed back until April.
Currently, Singh is owed roughly $80,000 by the tenant.
The tenant claims that he does not have the money to pay his rent because he lost his job during COVID lockdowns, but Singh’s lawyer, Stephen Freeborn suggested that this is false, given that the tenant has purchased two new cars recently.
“The guy can’t pay his rent, but he has two brand-new cars parked in the driveway,” said Freeborn.
Singh decided to take matters into his own hands and organize a protest to raise awareness for his plight and to demand that the tenant stop squatting into his house.
Following the protest, however, the tenant was able to secure a temporary restraining order against Singh, according to local news outlet KomoNews.
It is unclear whether Singh will be able to reclaim his own property, or receive back pay for the many months that his tenant has been in violation of their lease agreement.
Although in many cases police side with squatters, occasionally the criminals are actually arrested for stealing someone’s home.
In October, a group of squatters was arrested after living illegally inside a house in South Fulton, Georgia.
The four men were arrested after neighbors complained that they were turning the house into a strip-club on the weekends, and holding street races.
According to local news outlet WSB-TV, neighbors had been complaining about the men consistently to no avail until police finally responded and discovered multiple stolen cars, a stolen gun, and multiple stolen IDs on the property.
The four suspects, DeAnthony Maddox, Jeremy Wheat, Kelvin Hall and Tarahsjay Forde were arrested by a SWAT team.
Amid the rise of squatting across the country, a video surfaced of a man explaining to illegal immigrants how they can steal American homes by abusing squatter’s rights.
“I have thought about invading a house in United States, I found that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it,” said the man on TikTok, “I think that will be my next business, invading abandoned houses.”
In the video, he highlights seven African friends who have already stolen houses in the U.S.
He ends the video by explaining how the squatters can move into a “deteriorating” house, make some repairs, then legally sell the property without the knowledge or consent of the actual landowner.
Police don’t protect the squatters….the LAWS do. Hold the lawmakers accountable.
Interesting how this is happening just as Maine “lawmakers” move to dilute the 2nd Amendment rights of lawful citizens huh ?
What has the King, the IND. King , done at the national level ?
What has Milles done about it at the State level.
All they wore about is Trump!
Please show a law that allows someone to break into your home and take it over.
This will only increase dramatically when the spigot to free housing, food, clothes, health care, money, education and on and on is turned off. They will want what you and your family have worked a lifetime to earn and our liberal justice system will allow them to do it.
Yet, Democrats will continue to say they are fighting for democracy and our gaslighted friends and family will continue to vote by their emotions instead of what’s good for a healthy free and prosperous society.
Exactly who is working to destroy our Nation?
This is an attack on ownership — Greedy oligarchs through their leftist Democrat / Uniparty useful idiots are the actual property grabbers.
They hate the middle class because they are the hardest to control segment of the population.
They are the one’s manipulating the FJB meat puppet to open the border to criminals.
The people that want to come to the US to be a part of the system are pushed back in favor of criminals that hate us and will destroy our country.
It is time to get mean.
Soon they’ll be able to “Squat away” your vehicle if you leave it unoccupied..
It’s only “fair.” If you needed it, you’d be in it.
A good reason to keep your gun.
Welcome to the 3rd world shit hole. U$$A!
This POS is enabled by Catholic Charities — Those “charities” facilitate trafficking.
If a squatter takes your property or a “newcomer” murders a family member–
SUE the Catholic Charities!
Make the lives miserable of the people who run CC’s
Another sign of the declining empire.
If you won’t be home for a few days, hire a house sitter or have a friend stay in your house. NEVER EVER leave it empty and dark because these creeps have a network that looks for houses they can occupy. It doesn’t take them long to move in, have the locks changed, and then you will be STUCK with an entitled squatter. In MILLS MAINE the courts will be no help at all.
There is going to be much more of this when the spigot to free shelter, food, clothing, medical care, education and more is turned off. Welcome to Biden’s and Mills America.