Sanctuary states plan to distribute billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to immigrants in 2024, providing housing, food, health care and more to new immigrants entering the United States under President Joe Biden’s watch.
New York state legislators approved The $237 billion budget that Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is expected to sign includes about $2.4 billion to provide housing, health care and legal services to newly arrived immigrants.
New York State Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt warned that such funding for immigrants would only lead to more illegal immigration to sanctuary states.
Spotted: Immigrants wait to enter the Roosevelt Hotel
In the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, the city council I voted 30-18 approves $70 million in additional funding to provide housing, food, and medical care to approximately 40,000 immigrants arriving after August 2022.
In addition, Illinois state officials and the federal government are providing $48 million in funding to the city of Chicago to provide care for immigrants. The Illinois General Assembly will allocate even more, about $182 million, to immigrants as part of its 2025 budget.
“If you turn off the spigot, the money won’t come,” said Democratic City Councilman Anthony Beal, who voted against the funding.
“When are you going to help us? When are you going to help the people here?” Biel asked.
Recently arrived migrants sit on the floor of cots and makeshift shelters at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on August 31, 2023. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
In sanctuary Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey (D) and other state Democrats Hope Spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars on shelter services for immigrants.
State Democratic Party in Colorado Sanctuary want Launches a grant program for immigrants that can be used to “provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services and programs to immigrants within one year of their arrival in the United States.”
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