A black Chicagoan who voted for President Joe Biden slammed the immigration crisis before the show’s host said he was partly to blame.
One audience member lamented that the TOBT show hosts how the government is “bankrupting” Chicagoans by protecting immigrants who are being bussed into the city.
“Taxpayers, we have already paid $32 million in tax dollars to house and care for these immigrants,” she said. “Right now, we already know the only person who is eligible to become an asylum citizen here if they have been here since August. They are not even eligible. Here, this document is on people’s desks. We’ll be taking care of them for five to seven years while floating, and why not? Send them home! Send them back! Venezuela has already said, ‘Oh, we’re We won’t take them back.”
“I have a question,” one of the moderators said. “Who did you vote for?”
“I have no problem saying I voted for Biden because I didn’t vote. Here are the facts,” she said. (Related article: Chicago’s ‘lifelong Democrat’ threatens to vote against Biden over immigration crisis)
“Wait a minute, this influx of immigrants we’re dealing with right now is your fault,” he said.
Since August 21, 2022, more than 37,000 immigrants have entered Chicago. according to Go to the City of Chicago dashboard. Since then, the city has set up 23 temporary mass shelters to house migrants. space At O’Hare Airport. The city began evicting thousands of migrants from city and state shelters.
The Chicago suburb of Oak Park declared a state of emergency after more than 100 migrants arrived in need of shelter in the cold.
When Biden took office as president in January 2021, the immigration crisis skyrocketed. The number of immigrants jumped from more than 400,000 during former President Donald Trump’s final year in office to more than 1.7 million in fiscal year 2021. The number of encounters will exceed 2 million in 2022 and 2023, and will reach nearly 1 million in 2024. according to Submit to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
