Posted on 08/12/2023 9:47:34 AM PDT by simpson96
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is suggesting suburban communities step in and help with the city’s growing immigrant problem.
Opponents say Johnson is holding contradictory public policy opinions on the city’s sanctuary status while at the same time – like his predecessor – moving immigrants to the suburbs.
"We see some real support on the horizon," Johnson said in an Aug. 2 press conference, regarding landing spots for the thousands of immigrants the city has attracted in recent months.
Johnson’s comments come as the state’s undocumented population has soared to an estimated 511,000. Chicago alone hosts around half that population, a whopping 7% of the city’s entire population. according to a report from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR).
“In Chicago, South Lawndale (Little Village) is the community area with the largest number of undocumented immigrants (20,000). Recent movements of immigrants have created large undocumented populations in Belmont Cragin, Gage Park, Albany Park, and Brighton Park that now outnumber the undocumented in Pilsen (Lower West Side),” the report reads.
ICIRR reports DuPage, Kane, Lake, and Will counties are home to over 10,000 undocumented immigrants each.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending immigrants on buses to Chicago according to NBC News. Chicago's challenges are relatively minor compared to those faced by Texas border towns, he contends. Attributing the border crisis to President Joe Biden, Abbott has said Texas will continue the program until the border is properly secured.
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"We made the mess - now you suffer the consequences."
Does it get any more "liberal" than that?
Looking forward to the buyer's remorse that all those suburban white women who always vote "D" will have.
Wow. There’s a problem solver!
They voted to be replaced by Illegals
This is amusing, though of course ludicrous as well.
Behind it all are basic, human and quite rational decisions. If Chicago pays the homeless, the migrant, the indolent and the "gimme class" X in USD and services, while another location -- a suburb or smaller town -- pays 1/2 of X in USD and services, the homeless, the migrant, the indolent and the "gimme class" might be moved but will be back in no time at all. But "liberals" think without calculating the costs and resultant behaviors.
Dull major Johnson cannot think as a far as "the suburbs will send them back."
Voting DEMOCRAT has its consequences and they’re all bad, VERY BAD!
Suburbs to Chicago “Drop Dead”
Warfare against communities…
If you voted for the Dems, suck it up and live with it.
Seems fair 🤷♂️
We’re sooooo impressed with the ‘core values’ of democrat
sanctuary cities... WOW democrats are so smart and so superior - just ship off the illegals when you can’t use them to batter traditional Americans.
The major needs to send his excess to Rehoboth, Del.
Brilliant! Kudos!
WWMDD(what would Mayor Daley do)?
“They voted to be replaced by Illegals”
Did they? Really? Or did they, like 75 million Trump voters did, get their election(s) rigged by leftists? Leftists that have been perfecting their theft skills for decades.
I hesitate, now, to accuse people of having voted for their own demise, since I sure as hell did not in 2020. Yet, the reality continues to suck and get even worse through no fault of my own.
How about send them to Klaus Schwab’s house
So Abbot outsourcing their problems is atrocious says the guy that is outsourcing his problems. The
To be fair, probably not the Chicagoans in the suburbs.
Maybe it's time to unincorporate.
EVERY “immigrant” should go to a sanctuary city!
That’s okay..send them all to Oak Park, Evanston, Highland Park etc..they are we all democrats.😎
Meanwhile, all the suburban proggies are panicking and pulling in their virtue signaling “WE WELCOME ALL IMMIGRANTS” yard signs.
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