Posted on 06/01/2023 6:55:00 PM PDT by simpson96
The Chicago City Council has approved allocating an additional $51 million from City funds to address the current migrant crisis.
But many citizens have criticized the move, saying that the money should be used to support the local homeless population.
During the May 31 City Council meeting, the members voted on a proposed allocation of $51 million to address the migrant crisis facing the city. As a Sanctuary City, Chicago has seen more than 8,200 migrants arrive within the last 10 months and is now running out of space and resources to house them.
The proposal for additional funding passed with a vote of 34-13 in favor, a Block Club Chicago report said. The aid will likely only last through June.
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Several citizens criticized the decision, saying the money is needed to support the city's poorest residents.
Carolyn Ruff, founder of Black Lives Matter Women of Faith, encouraged the aldermen to vote against the proposal. She stated that the City should use the funds to provide support for the city's homeless population. She also criticized the City's plan to convert vacant schools into temporary housing for migrants when so many homeless Chicagoans currently need shelter.
"We have not opened up the schools for our homeless," Ruff said in the meeting. "We see them in the streets every day. I make sure that the homeless are fed, with clothing. We need to take care of our community. We need to take care of our Black community. We need to open up these schools for mental health. We have a lot of mental health people walking around needing help."
Ruff berated the council and City for forgetting about the members of their own community who have not received such large amounts of aid or attention despite their long-standing issues.
“We have not gotten anything for our community, and we are sick and tired of being sick and tired,” Ruff said. “Enough is enough! And I voted for you Brandon, Mayor Brandon. I voted for you, I worked hard to get you in there. ... Please, do the right thing for the Black community, for the brown community, for the community, for the homeless community, and the people that need help mentally.”
$51mi for 8200 migrants: about $6,200 per person. It should be enough to get him or her start up new life
wow .. is right, this is something that is not getting enough attention.
The cost of this out of control invasion is not just boarder patrol agents and temp housing and cell phones.
Think about the quality of life that is being sacrificed.
583 cops(I hope your math is right ..I didn't check it) ...wow ... you could have a safe city.
But instead, more criminals and less safety ...
If this doesn’t wake up some of those folks to the fact that dems just use them ,then nothing will.
583 more cops .... it just boggles the mind that these are the kinds of decision being made by those in charge.
Eat it.
“In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.”
Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-90
They did not get the BLM memo
Buy
Large
Mansions
These so-called BLM Marxists are taking pages from several democRAT playbooks.
-Spend other people’s money
-Shakedown as many and as much as possible.
If and when the $-faucet-$ ends, retreat to your well-guarded compound(s) and enjoy counting your money.
well the article stated that the 51 million would last through the end of June so I assume that if they continue with this BS, Let’s Go Branson will be asking for the same or more every month going forward.
If Biden got 75% of the vote in Crook County, that means he probably got 85-90% in Chicago itself, including the cemetery vote (which I’m sure is 100% to Biden)
Nope. It’ll barely cover housing/feeding/caring for them for a month
Schadenfreude.
Inevitable with commie Dems always playing divide and conquer. Some of those preferred groups don’t like EACH OTHER.
Gimmestuff organization doesn’t like their gimmestuff free stuff going to new migrants. They worked too hard for their free stuff to give it away to these invaders
Who would willingly work for CPD, except to get their foot in the door and flee to some suburban agency.
blm not getting their cut? That’s a shame.
Perhaps it will be helpful for them to stomp feet and then go out and burn loot and murder something
No doubt about the city vote. In regard to the cemetery vote, I saw something that made me laugh during last year’s governor’s race. There is a huge cemetery on 127th Street. For about a quarter mile outside the cemetery fence, there had to have been a hundred yard signs for Pritzker.
Suck it up BLM 🤪🤡
8200 illegal aliens and Chicago freaks out.
7 million illegal aliens crossed the border since Brandon. That is in addition to the 40 million or so who were already here.
Crimea river. Laredo, Texas handles this better than Chicago.
HAHAHA So BLM are racist xenophobes who hate brown people. Go figure.
Let them fight. This will be bigger than the Triads versus the new boat people/Vietnamese...way bigger.
Let her get her it from MARXIST con-artist fearless leader of BLM, Cullors, or house the illegals in her three multi-million dollar whorehouses.
That’s about the size of it. Black Lives Matter — but when the crunch comes, Democratic politics and policies matter more.
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