Denver Mayor Mike Johnston wants the city to devote more cash to housing and care for undocumented immigrants as the city continues to drown in waves of undocumented immigrants and the costs hit the Mile High City like a tsunami. proposed defunding police and fire departments.
The city is increasing spending on free food, clothing, health care, and housing, as well as programs for job counseling, language instruction, and other job training resources for immigrants, among other things.
According to Mayor Johnston, “The program also includes language instruction, career path exploration, industry-recognized certification training, and access to work-based learning opportunities,” according to OANN News. report on friday.
This latest set of training programs for illegal aliens is part of Johnston’s proposed $89.9 million in immigration spending.
But some of this new spending money that Johnston wants to splurge on comes from the police department’s budget, according to the Denver Police and Fire Department.
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For example, the Denver Police Department admitted it was losing $8.4 million from its operating budget.
The city’s fire department is also said to be in the red, with a $2.5 million deficit cut from its budget.
According to Denver’s KSUA-TV, Johnston also said: cut salary Reducing the burden on the city’s 9-1-1 providers by changing the way they pay public service providers.
Like other leftists, Johnston is trying to change people’s perceptions of illegal aliens by promoting the English language and referring to illegal aliens who break the law as “newcomers.”
Today we shared our new budget and more sustainable onboarding program.
I’m proud of our city for welcoming those most in need. I’m proud of the City team for finding a way to minimize the budget without making a huge impact.
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— Mayor Mike Johnston (@MikeJohnstonCO) April 11, 2024
“After more than a year of facing this crisis together, the City of Denver has finally developed a sustainable plan to treat newcomers with dignity while avoiding the worst cuts to city services,” Johnston said. Ta. “We have been told that we cannot be fiscally responsible and yet compassionate. Today we know that our most difficult challenges are still solvable and that together we can overcome them.” It proves that it can be solved.”
“Individuals arriving in Denver after April 10th will be provided short-term accommodation at a congregate location, as well as assistance in securing transportation to another destination. Selected newcomers will be able to take advantage of available local and community support,” the press release concludes.
Johnston also proposed cuts to other city services, totaling about $45.9 million in cuts. The plan must be approved by the city council, which will begin considering the plan on April 16.
Venezuelan immigrants wait in line to obtain documents to enter a shelter at an immigration processing center in Denver, Colorado, on May 9, 2023. (Helen H. Richardson/Media News Group/Denver Post via Getty)
People pack up and prepare to leave at the largest migrant campground on 27th Street between Zuni Street and Olcott Street on Wednesday, January 3, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. The city council allocated $300,000 to immigrant families from the campground to cover their first month. rent. (Hyun Chang/The Denver Post)
The cut is not sudden. Johnston has been warning for months that Joe Biden’s wave of illegal aliens would impose continued costs on the city and force cuts to city services.
In December, he argued that the city’s budget needs to be cut even further than it was during the recession.
In an interview with ABC News, Johnston said that unless sanctuary cities receive support from the federal government to deal with the financial impact of an influx of immigrants into their cities, the budgetary impact of dealing with immigration will be significant. He said that it would become bigger and the public finances would be in turmoil. The remaining budget would need to be cut by about 10%, which would be a bigger cut than the budget cuts made during the recession of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Johnston said he doesn’t know where the cuts will be made, but added, “We’re having tough conversations with departments and cities right now. We want to avoid that problem. If we take action on our proposed supplemental budget, we believe $14 billion will help meet this need.
“So we want to avoid those difficult trade-offs and we want the federal government to take action. If we don’t, we’re looking at a $160 million impact. That’s 10% of the entire budget. So imagine cutting all city government agencies by 10%. That would be a historic cut, something we saw even during the recession in 2009 and 2010. It will be on a scale that is unprecedented.”
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