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Posted on 12/02/2016 1:32:49 PM PST by PBRCat
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday kept up his postelection push to position himself as a protector of immigrants against President-elect Donald Trump, announcing the creation of a $1 million "legal protection fund" to help those fighting possible deportation.
The fund was created in partnership with the National Immigrant Justice Center to "provide immediate legal information, screenings, consultations and representation to individuals who may be at risk for deportation," according to a news release from Emanuel's office.
The money will come from the $20 million the city set aside for Emanuel's property tax rebate program, according to city spokeswoman Jennifer Martinez.
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If someone got killed by an illegal who was funded by this fund, could the survivors sue the fund out of existence?
on the count of aiding and abetting?
Sounds like a way for a victims’s family to get some revenge....
“... $1 million “legal protection fund” to help those fighting possible deportation...”
Knowing how lawyers are, this $1 million dollars would cover maybe 3-4 illegal immigrants....
[ Would this not be “aiding and abetting” by Emanuel??? Helping federal criminals evade the law?? Or is he just another failed DemocRat breaking the law?? ]
Republican Mayors need to start mirroring ( sanctuary politics ) by mirroring the sanctuary city policies but only applying them to citizen tax cheats....
The media would throw a hissy fit, until it was brought up that the same policies were based off sanctuary city policies in libtard ran cities...
Unbefreakinlievable.
How any Americans with 2 synapses firing can continue to associate with the Democrat party, much less vote for them, escapes me.
>It’s a shame the majority of the people of Chicago are are too ignorant/stupid to oppose this improper use of their taxes.
That and the fact they keep voting democrat. Sick puppies.
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He is using citizen’s tax money to “protect” criminals who jumped the border. We ought run Rahm out of the country on a rail after we tar and feather him.
Hizzoner da Mayor might want to take some notice of this.
With all the trouble that Rahm Emanuel has been having in Chicago lately, specifically with unrest surrounding his police department and other scandals, it’s easy to forget that he’s dealing with another serious problem: his city is nearly bankrupt. As with so many other large, Democrat run municipalities, the chief culprit here is the massively underfunded pension system for municipal workers. Their unions negotiated some real sweetheart deals for them over the years, but the costs were completely unsustainable. When the city began to go broke, no real compromise was ever offered by the unions so Rahm is left to find some way to shore up the funds.
No problem, kids! Hizzoner will simply jack up the utility rates and let the taxpayers foot the bill even more. (reported Chicago Tribune)
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will propose a new utility tax on Chicagoans’ water and sewer bills in an effort to shore up the largest of the city’s ailing pension funds, according to multiple sources who were briefed on the plan Wednesday.
Under Emanuel’s plan, the tax would be phased in over the next four years, with the average homeowners’ bill increasing $50 each year until it reaches $200 in the fourth year, said Ald. Ameya Pawar, 47th, who was briefed on the plan Wednesday morning. The average Chicago homeowner’s water and sewer bill is $114.30, billed every other month, city officials have said.
You may be wondering why he didn’t simply increase property taxes to cover the pension funds. The answer is that he’s already raised them considerably and his elected officials in the city are getting nervous about being run out of town on a rail if they keep increasing the burden in that fashion. But for middle and lower income residents of an already poverty ridden city, jacking up their water bill by 200 dollars may be a bit much to swallow as well.
What makes this even more of a stereotypical Democrat move is the distinctly non-progressive nature of this plan. At least when you increase the property taxes the wealthy tend to pay a bit more. (I believe Democrats refer to that as “their fair share.”) But the utility bills tend to hit everyone pretty much equally, so the city’s poorest residents will feel the pinch the most. In the end, that’s how these things always seem to work. But more than anything else, this should have been a wake-up call similar to what we thought might happen in Detroit when they were dealing with the same issues.
The era of massive pension plans for unionized government workers has led to a case of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. But rather than acknowledging this reality, the unions just continue to push back, demanding every penny they can soak out of the system until it collapses under its own weight.
But hey… you just keep on electing those Democrats, guys. I’m sure it will all work out wonderfully in the end.
Paging Jeff Sessions..please pick up the white courtesy telephone..ANNNNND...
ARREST THIS TWERP!!!!
Until we start enforcing the EXISTING laws, this garbage is going to continue.
Make an example of Rahm and others. The rest will quickly start to understand the days of picking and choosing which laws we want to enforce are SO over.
I guess those pension plans are all paid up.
These pathetic Dumbocrats slay me.
ITEM---Sap-Happy liberals like Rahm made dam sure they n-e-v-e-r run out of tax dollars to fund sanctuary cities, welfare and food stamps, education and healthcare, endless SS payments and EITC checks for these parasitic immigrants. All of them on our soil illegally....money-guzzling creeps who never put a dime into the system.
ITEM---Sap-happy Liberals made dam sure there are on-the-book govt mandates that force struggling taxpayers to foot the bill for illegal refugees here to go back and forth between America and their supposedly hostile homelands on the taxpayers' dime.
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And isn't it strange (smirk)?
Sap-Happy liberals types like Rahm are the first to whine they're running out of SS money for working Americans who put in money for years.....
The first to whine they're running out of pension money aging working Americans put in for years.
The first to whine they're running out of Medicare money aging working Americans put in for years.
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Rahm is so helpful and enamored of illegals, betcha they are just dying to subsidize this govt parasite Rahm.
Illegals are dying to pay for Rahm's multiple pensions, perks, humongous salary, healthcare, his living costs, credit cards, expense accounts.....all the expenses struggling taxpayers have been ripped off for by this parasite.
These pathetic Dumbocrats slay me.
ITEM---Sap-Happy liberals like Rahm made dam sure they n-e-v-e-r run out of tax dollars to fund sanctuary cities, welfare and food stamps, education and healthcare, endless SS payments and EITC checks for these parasitic immigrants. All of them on our soil illegally....money-guzzling creeps who never put a dime into the system.
ITEM---Sap-happy Liberals made dam sure there are on-the-book govt mandates that force struggling taxpayers to foot the bill for illegal refugees here to go back and forth between America and their supposedly hostile homelands on the taxpayers' dime.
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And isn't it strange (smirk)?
Sap-Happy liberals types like Rahm are the first to whine they're running out of SS money for working Americans who put in money for years.....
The first to whine they're running out of pension money aging working Americans put in for years.
The first to whine they're running out of Medicare money aging working Americans put in for years.
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Rahm is so helpful and enamored of illegals, betcha they are just dying to subsidize this govt parasite Rahm.
Illegals are dying to pay for Rahm's multiple pensions, perks, humongous salary, healthcare, his living costs, credit cards, expense accounts.....all the expenses struggling taxpayers have been ripped off for by this parasite.
Amen.
They’re going to litigate to keep the invaders & terrorists here. Almost like a defense fund for Al Qaeda & ISIS.
Home owners will not be pleased. He may not get reelected next time. Ack, of course he will. It’s RAT country.
The property owners who lease/rent out their property will pass it along to their renters. Of course, the stupid rents can’t grasp that fact.
A city with over 700 dead and 4,000 shot with one month to go.
And he’s worried about foreigners and not Americans.
Sure, but the sheeple (on all sides of the aisle) will continue to pay. To do anything less would require far too much sacrifice. Same reason there will never be a CWII. Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.
“push to position himself as a protector of immigrants “
The Left has redefined “aliens” to “immigrants” and then dropped the word illegal.
The MSM has redefined the objection to illegal aliens, especially criminal illegal aliens, as racism.
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