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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"You can fit thirteen hundred more families in this suburb!"
Good selling point to the Dems. (Then intercept the mail.)
Call me before making that wish. I might want to add a few things to it.
Ain’t gonna work. There’s nothing for mobs of illegals in the suburbs. They’ll go right back into the cities.
Give ‘em lawnmowers and leaf blowers and no one will notice.
Absolutely, the 'burbs should just send them back.
Chicago Mayor decides city is much too dangerous for new migrants.
Fine. The suburbs need to declare themslves non-sanctuary cities and send the “migrants” back to Chicago. Cities like ChicAgo created the santuary cities problem and now they need to live with it, or revoke their own sanctaury city laws.
The average citizen had better follow every law to the letter or else they will be in trouble! But the ruling class (the Bidens, etc.) and the bottom classes (habitual criminals, illegal aliens) can get away with almost anything but they are protected.
Tell the illegals they are only safe in sanctuary cities, they can be reported for deportation in the suburbs
Welcome to Lawsburg
We help the USCIS
Contractors shall warranty that they, their subcontractors and their workers will obey the law. Liquidated damages of 50% of the contracted amounts shall be payable to town and shall be useable to make public pension payment.
The new mayor is a communist lunatic owned by the Chicago Teachers’ Union.
He has a huge number of personal bodyguards (close to 150) while the city suffers from rampant crime and there is not a police superintendent.
Suburbs to mayor: drop dead.
Is Marthas Vinyard a suburb of Chicago?
He’ll probably send them to the wealthiest suburbs where the billionaires live.
Should be interesting.
Many of my wife’s MW relatives live in Illinois and still are negatively impacted by the Illinois governor and state government on a daily basis.
Some of the younger relatives with good college degrees, are
living in Indiana. They are happy and basically safe from the Daily Illinois Dem B$.
Trump should just televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state “I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.”
Very short video - about 84 seconds.
https://www.c-spanorg/video/? c4351026/c
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