Posted on 11/12/2023 8:42:05 AM PST by Morgana
Chicago has become so unpleasant that migrants are fleeing back to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused better paying jobs.
Since August last year, 20,700 migrants have arrived in Chicago from Texas. The Lone Star State's Governor Greg Abbott sent migrants to Chicago and other Democrat-run cities because of their proud status as 'sanctuary cities.' They offer enhanced protection against detention or deportation for undocumented migrants.
Now, Illinois' harsh winters, lack of migrant infrastructure, and ambivalent support from locals has made many people, who undertook the harsh US-Mexico border journey, actually turn around and go back home.
Venezuela-born Michael Castejon, 39, and his family have been sleeping on the floors of police stations and shelters after he could not afford to pay rent in Chicago - because his work permit was taking so long to arrive.
The family was renting an apartment through a city voucher program, that gives up to $15,000 for up to six months of rental assistance - but once it ran out, they had to give up their living space.
The dad found a job in construction, and he was getting paid in cash, but it wasn't enough to sustain his family since they arrived in June.
After five months of rough living with no end in sight, the family decided to pack up their belongings and return to South America, realizing that 'there's nothing here for us.'
Castejon said the failed journey to settle in the US had not been worth it, despite the extreme poverty and an authoritarian regime they were living under in Venezuela.
After months of begging for money and crossing borders, the dreams that he had heard of from other migrants had failed to materialize for him, he revealed.
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You make a good point. How long before our current tyranny builds a wall to keep people in?
That’s great! Hopefully as the winter progresses more will follow suit.
That wind off of Lake Michigan will chill them but good🥶!
They came here because they thought the streets were paved in gold, and milk and honey were flowing freely. That is no longer true of the USA. We are no longer prosperous. We have a hard time surviving in the land that was once an El Dorado.
Sorry folks, but the well is dry and we are running out of dinero. Go back to the communist hellhole that sent you here.
The free market economy that led to our former prosperity is no more. It’s a controlled economy, with the government punishing hard work, taxing prosperity, and royally rewarding lazy indolents.
I'm sure they are. They don't have to live with the problem and don't ever intend to or to fund the solutions either. Who does?
U.S. cities have not traditionally had the infrastructure to resettle high numbers of immigrants and refugees. This is federal responsibility.
That's right, boys and girls. We do. Their virtue signaling. Our tax money.
I do wonder - the article isn't specific - how these refugees are funding their return trips. I'll kick in.
Oh, and this gem from the city website - who is to blame for this migratory disaster? Why, U.S. foreign policy, of course! I have some bad news for that author - we didn't create Chavez and Maduro. The proggies loved the former and love the latter. And they love passing the buck.
I agree. This is the answer. Send every single illegal to Chicago. I’m sure they will love the winters too!
Nothing like watching fleas flee the Flea Circus.
“Chicago has become so unpleasant that migrants are fleeing back to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused better paying jobs.”
Migrants a helluva lot wiser than the average Chicago dipshit voter.
“...over 70% of illegals and legal immigrants go on government payments or programs of some kind and never get off it- they are NOT coming here to work- only about 25% or so actually come here to work..”
Not..you are confusing Chicago democrats with migrants.
How soon before people from Chicago start to follow them to Venezuela?
I hope ALL of the illegals come to the same realization and go back to their home of record voluntarily.
“Don’t let the door hit ya,where the good Lord split ya”.
But I also look at it from another perspective.
People make mistakes. They think the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence when in fact it's not. I've been there, and I now hope the illegal immigrants, who in my view are still law breakers (even OBiden gave them the green light) are starting to realize that as well.
Nope- the stats are what they are- we are talking country wide- not every immigrant or even illegal for that matter doesn’t work- but a majority average of them don’t-
this is from 2014- it’s worse now
“In a new analysis of the latest numbers, from 2014, 63 percent of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70 percent for those here 10 years or more, confirming another concern that once immigrants tap into welfare, they don’t get off it.”
one more- there are more recent reports, i don’t have tiem tonight to find them- but they are all abotu the same- the majority go on welfare and are not here to work contrary to the lies of the msm
“USA: Muslim “refugees” – 91.4% on food stamps, 68.3% on Cash Welfare.”
And these Muslims on the US dome have the audacity to complain about the great Satan and fly the crescent flag while protesting their lack of rights as an illegal.
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