Outraged resident warns what $70M migrant funding will do to sanctuary city

Chicago-based activists who protested separate funding for immigrant care in the Windy City warn that the city risks bankruptcy if left unchecked — despite the City Council’s fierce opposition to raise $70 million. This comes just days after the government gave the green light to add more dollars to the budget.

“The main objection is that there is no end in sight,” P. Ray Easley said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “It seems like every three or four months there’s a new vote that calls for huge amounts of taxpayer funds to be allocated to illegal aliens. We have to stop this, or we The city will go bankrupt.”

The City Council voted 30-18 to approve Mayor Brandon Johnson’s request to address the current immigration crisis. This funding is on top of the $150 million already allocated for migrant care in the budget.

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Mayor Johnson’s office said the funding request was to prepare the city “in the event of a sudden increase in new arrivals caused by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.” The city aims to provide “basic necessities” such as food, shelter, health care, education, vaccines, case management and resettlement assistance.

Johnson’s office said the city has been dealing with more than just the peak. 2,000 immigrants It will arrive within a week. Approximately 40,000 people will arrive from August 2022 onwards

However, the request drew significant opposition from residents who believed illegal immigrants were being given priority over residents.

Easley, a political abolitionist and Chicago radio show host, said he wasn’t surprised by the council’s approval, but the number of progressives who voted against it has increased as more residents speak out. , said it was a sign that support for such funds was beginning to crumble. .

“It was the opposition’s fault,” said Easley, who previously was an intern for then-state Sen. Barack Obama.

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Recently arrived migrants sit on the floor and cots of a temporary city-run shelter at O’Hare International Airport on August 31, 2023. ((Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images))

Easley emphasized that the city needs additional resources for rehabilitating addicts, as well as restoring transportation for the city’s general education students.

“If the city has money, we need to use that money to pay for student transportation, because we’re already a district with a 40% absentee rate. So the city provides transportation for undocumented people. “It’s unfair that we couldn’t provide transportation for American children when we could, taxpayers,” she said.

One lawmaker pointed out that the United States has accepted large numbers of immigrants in the past. Mr. Easley denied that theory.

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“Two things. First, I’m a black woman. So I’m 100% American, and the immigration story doesn’t concern me. But more than that, the immigrants who came to this country , they came here legally, whether through “Ellis Island or the Port of New Orleans,” she said.

“The purpose of immigrating to this country is to vet who you are before you come here and to have an immigration record. “People who don’t have immigration records, people who don’t have immigration records, they’re a threat to our city because without fingerprints, they’re all potential security breaches,” she said.

She also stressed that she and her allies are not reflexively opposing the mayor.

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“What we want people to know is that we’re not an anti-Brandon Johnson group. We’re an anti-chaos and progressive group. And if he becomes their spokesperson… “If he chooses to be, he has the right to put all the energy we put into ‘imposing them,'” she warned.