Posted on 12/14/2023 4:57:30 PM PST by Libloather
Chicago's Democrat leaders have been accused of hiding from voters in a city buckling under a migrant crisis after they blocked a vote on ditching its sanctuary city status.
Mayor Brandon Johnson ordered his lieutenants to quash a bid to put the controversial 'Welcoming City Ordinance' to a referendum on Chicago's March primary ballot.
It came after the mayor's floor leader was forced to resign for physically blocking opponents trying to access a previous vote on the issue last month.
'What are you scared of? To let the people have a voice? The truth?' demanded Alderman Anthony Beale as his latest bid was blocked on Thursday.
'That's all this question is asking, is to let the people have a say.'
The city expects to spend $300 million this year on coping with more than 24,000 migrants who have arrived in the city after crossing the Mexican border since August last year.
It spent nearly $1 million on a tent camp in Brighton Park before tests revealed the soil was too poisonous to live on, and more than 3,000 migrants are still waiting for shelter as arctic winter temperatures start to bite.
City authorities have faced a furious backlash from residents as parks and public facilities have been commandeered to house the newcomers who are still arriving at a rate of 700 a week.
Around 300 are still living on the floors of Chicago's police stations, and conditions are so bad across the city that some have decided to return home to South America.
Sanctuary city status means that city officials are forbidden from asking questions about a person's immigration status, or revealing it to federal authorities.
Police in the city are not allowed to arrest anyone solely because they are an illegal immigrant, and the city will not co-operate...
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I wonder if the idiot voters in Chicago have figured out that they are the idiot voters in Chicago yet
LOL!
Stop giving them free stuff and they will leave.
20,000. What a bunch of losers, now if was 1-2 million I could see why the whiny bitches are crying about what the border states have been suffering for years.
“ the incompetence they themselves voted for.”
They voted to fund their replacements.
No...they are rotten, hopeless and deserve everything they get.
Why are they outraged? Stalinists don’t put things on ballots to give people a choice.
Truth is, the “immigrants” all come in with more money on hand to spend than half of those they are replacing. They all have Debit cards with $5K, they receive monthly stipends, if stories are to be believed, of $2500 each, they get housed, they get ebt cards, they get free medical, and they get federally funded for higher education, and they VOTE. What do those that are upset about them contribute to the local economy?
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