Posted on 04/12/2024 5:59:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
During a portion of an interview with CNBC that was recorded in February and aired on Thursday’s “Cities of Success,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston responded to a question on if the city was too open to migrants and too generous by stating that “it’s a balance. We want to be a welcoming city” but doing that without federal help “requires shared sacrifice, it requires compromise. So, we are both making cuts to city budgets to meet this financial need, and we are making cuts to the amount of services we can provide to the migrants that arrive and to the number of folks that we can serve.”
Johnston said that the number of migrants that came to the city was “much higher than what we thought. I will say, what we’re very proud of is, like other problems, we’ve taken this on, we’ve figured out an entrepreneurial approach, and we’ve figured out a path to solve it. Of the 40,000 migrants who have arrived in this city, as of tonight, I have a regular count, we have about 40 to 45 migrants total that are unsheltered tonight. That means 99.9% of those 40,000 have come through, gotten connected to services, housing, work, and made it successfully. So, we figured out how to run this machine, how to welcome people, get them connected to legal clinics, provide them wrap-around resources. To do that well just requires resources, and so, our challenge is, we can do it well with federal help, we can do it well with more work authorization, we can do it well with a coordinated plan for entry. Without any of those three, the work becomes tougher. But we’ve now doubled down, assuming there’s no federal help coming, and we’re going to figure it out on our own.
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Yea, it’s funny how the people who implement these insane never seem to do any of their own sacrificing. It’s always us.
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Sounds like they need a few thousand more.
“Shared Sacrifice” is communist doublespeak.
ILLEGALS you MORON...
Lemme guess...this Mayor pulls down $150K a year,lives in a wealthy gated community,belongs to a very exclusive country club,vacations in Mexico and Hawaii and flies First Class to those climate summits in Davos.
“Illegals”? That’s really pretty woke. “Wetbacks” says it best.
Wait until his constituents see all of their services being cut so it can go to those who just show up.
Waiting for their SNAP cards being declined and Section 8 housing going to illegals. 🍿
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —Perth, Scotland, 28 May 1948, in Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948 (London: Cassell, 1950), 347.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” —House of Commons, 22 October 1945.
What hypocrites.
You’re probably right.
Anyone who voted for this mayor should take an illegal into their home.
Just saw this in the article above:
“...we have about 40 to 45 migrants total that are unsheltered tonight. That means 99.9% of those 40,000 have come through, gotten connected to services, housing, work, and made it successfully. “
So, 39,9640 AMERICANS were denied services and it was given to illegals.
Shitcago, you are reaping what you sowed.
> we can do it well with federal help <
That’s a key phrase right there. If the Democrats can cheat their way to control of the White House and Congress this November, then look out below.
The Iowa farmer and the Florida plumber will be paying for every comfort these Denver illegals require.
ooohhh - that was Denver-
So, there are now 0ver 40k illegals there now?????
Dear Mike, the Federal Gov’t is adding to it’s debt at the rate of $60,000.00 per second or 1 trillion every 90 days. So, they are broke. No, they are way beyond broke. They are 536 “fools” walking around the Capitol Building every day who could STOP this deficit spending/borrowing today if they wanted to.
Give up the “feel good” migrant non sense. You are bs’ng the citizens of Denver. These “illegal criminals” need to go back where they came from and build up their country and their culture. The Citizens of Denver cannot afford them or you.
Put a thousand illegals inside your mansion. Show that you mean it!
“We want to be a welcoming city”
Same crap language Utah’s governor uses for the state. And people wonder why the “homeless” (oops!, “unsheltered”) population is so bad and why the food banks are nearly empty.
Socialism always means everyone gets poorer. Except the party elites, of course.
My daughter moved to Denver 8 years ago. I’m not a city person but I thought it was nice...clean, quiet, no street people. Much like almost anywhere else, it had a few sketchy areas to stay away from. Every year when we visit - especially the last 3 to 4 - the degradation is quite apparent.
In 5 years Denver will be San Francisco.
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