Nearly 1,000 foreign nationals arrived in Denver in just the last 10 days prompting lame duck Mayor Hancock to declare a “local humanitarian crisis of unsheltered migrants.”
Funny how it was an outrage when border governors shipped to major cities some of the five million migrants illegally streaming across Joe Biden’s open border after he took office — that’s enough to fill an entire state the size of Colorado.
But when non-governmental activists organizations do it, Democrats say it’s an emergency and we all need to chip in and help instead of just blaming Republicans.
Denver would have us believe our migrants are only from Central and South America, as opposed to the 150 counties around the globe, that also includes suspected terrorists and drug dealers, Border Patrol reports.
The city is begging for new employees with pay up to $27 an hour to help out, plus volunteers are needed in the homeless shelters where more than 500 migrants are presently taking up space.
Denver 7 reports the city has already spent more than $800,000 to take care of them.
Speaking to reporters Thursday afternoon, Hancock said that while the city had been prepared to welcome groups of migrants that had been coming to the city over the past several months, it’s been only recently that the migrants started to arrive in large numbers and “without any type of advanced notice that we may have had received previously.”
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper initially blamed Republicans for the migrant’s arrival, before welcoming them with open arms.
He and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet are encouraging even more migrants to come and consume vast city resources paid for by Denver and Colorado taxpayers, usually reserved for our homeless population.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette promised to help with federal resources, and yet the failure of the federal government to send promised relief is exactly the reason these folks are being bused from border states to our steps.
Bennet wasn’t so forthcoming about federal aid:
“Colorado has always been a welcoming place, and I’m pleased to see the city of Denver and community organizations step up with resources and aid,” Bennet said in a statement.
When Title 42 expires on Wednesday, expect an avalanche at the border and even more making their way to Colorado.
The Trump administration relied on Title 42, a public health rule, to remove two million migrants during COVID.
Texas lawmakers from both parties urged the Biden administration on Sunday to provide more support in the days leading up to this week’s scheduled end of a Trump-era policy that had allowed for widespread expulsions of people seeking asylum.
“They’ve gotta have something in place,” Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat who represents a border area in Texas, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” of the Biden administration’s immigration plans for the end of the Title 42 policy. “With all due respect, I’ve looked at that plan. … It hasn’t worked.”
When Democrats admit their own plans aren’t working to avert a crisis, be assured that crisis is imminent.