The high cost of living in many areas around the country can mean that many hard working American citizens are in need of federal funding to provide a house for their families that they can call home. Because federal aid is a limited resource, it should be used to benefit legal citizens of the United States of America.

The 2008 fiscal year Transportation and House and Urban Development Appropriations bill, which passed the House, included a provision which prevents illegal aliens from obtaining federally-funded housing assistance. Our country is built on laws and we must enforce those them. Those who break our laws by crossing the border illegally should not be rewarded with federal aid that ought to be reserved for our citizens.