Posted on 04/19/2024 1:54:46 AM PDT by Libloather
A housing advocacy group is slamming Denver’s new Asylum Seekers Program as “insufficient” and “a slap in the face,” even staging a protest to voice their disapproval — as the city spends tens of millions of dollars on migrant aid and slashes its emergency services budget to stave off insolvency in the wake of the influx.
The surge of new arrivals has thrown the Mile High City’s city’s budget into a tailspin. More than 40,000 migrants have found their way to Denver since December 2022 — more per capita than any other US city — at a total cost of around $68 million.
Of those funds, approximately $35 million was spent between December 2023 and March alone, according to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s office.
The program would be modified to provide “a long-term, sustainable response” that addresses what his office calls a “crisis,” the Democrat said in a statement Wednesday.
The program will provide six months of free housing, food assistance, workforce training and more to the approximately 1,000 migrants currently in the city’s shelter system as they await authorization to work, which due to federal asylum seeker law can take up to 180 days.
“After more than a year of facing this crisis together, Denver finally has a sustainable plan for treating our newcomers with dignity while avoiding the worst cuts to city services,” Johnston’s office said.
However, Denver’s emergency services weren’t completely spared from budget cuts to help pay for migrant aid.
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Yep. This little item has not been mentioned anywhere in public. SCOTUS ruled illegals are due the same rights as citizens regarding the purchase of firearms. It won’t be long until a battalion of these invaders become a reality and the cities will burn.
We hear and see nightly broadcasts about the shooting in Ukraine and the shooting in Gaza, but I don't recall ever seeing any brave "journalist" going to Venezuela or anyplace else to expose first hand how terrible the conditions are in the places that all of these "refugees" are coming from. It's almost like somebody is making all of this up.
Examples of a failed government: allowing and enabling an invasion, stealing from tax payers to house and feed the invaders, giving special benefits to invaders, giving invaders the ability to own firearms, ignoring the impending risk to the security of citizens and sovereignty of the country.
We seem too far gone for the normal process of impeachment, or legislative action to correct this. It’s going to get ugly, hope I’m wrong. In the meantime, it’s payday, a good day to invest in lead.
No kidding.
Workforce training??
That’s what Americans need!
What a bunch of crap.
I was 73 years old when my community was burned out and I didn’t get zip from any government!
What were they promised and by whom were they promised it?
Face it these Illegal Aliens are just here for the FREE STUFF and as much cash as they can send home
“ A housing advocacy group is slamming Denver’s new Asylum Seekers Program as “insufficient” and “a slap in the face,”
Then consider your face slapped and go back where you came from.
Shoot, if they can’t get lifetime financial support plus paid vacations and medical, why even bother coming?
And they are just warming up.
Probably got thrown out of their own house.
migrant? ridiculous! Invaders is proper terminology.
Democracy is when the government chooses the people.
The horror, the horror, of the plight of those poor, illegal invaders here.
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