Jared Polis so desperately wants us to believe he’s better than all those other governors who bused out migrants flooding their cities from illegal border crossings after they packed shelters beyond capacity and depleted all available social services.
Those governors, Republicans most of them, were sending a message to President Biden they could not afford to keep up with all the demands of Joe’s Open Border Crisis.
Polis and Denver Mayor Hancock just complained they weren’t getting any money from the feds to take care of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free from the wretched refuse of their teeming shore.
So they called up Greyhound and the poor huddled masses were no longer their problem.
The Denver Gazette now reports that Polis didn’t even give the other state’s the courtesy of a head’s up call to allow them to prepare.
Colorado officials did not notify other cities before sending immigrants their way, emails show
So rude.
Gov. Polis’ administration appears to have intended to but failed to notify cities in advance of transporting immigrants from Denver out of state, emails obtained by The Denver Gazette show. The emails make clear that the administration knew the immigrants were going to other cities because officials asked the immigrants to verify on a waiver informing intended host cities they might need help once they were transported out of Denver.
Polis only gave New York about an hour’s heads up before he publicly announced the migrants were getting bused their way.
Other major cities including Chicago, Atlanta and Miami had zero notice.
“Before the first bus arrived in either of our cities, we informed a Colorado official directly that neither city had any additional room to accommodate any more migrants because of the thousands of migrants that had already been inhumanely bused to our respective cities from Texas since spring of 2022,” Adams and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote in an open letter on Jan. 7.
Adams and Lightfoot urged Polis stop busing immigrants to their cities.
The Gazette reveals Denver taxpayers bought nearly 2,000 bus tickets to ship migrants to 100 cities in 35 states.
Polis’s spokesflack Conor Cahill did not reveal how many bus tickets Colorado taxpayers covered, but confirmed well over $600,000 was spent by state taxpayers to handle the month-long chaos.
Nearly 4,400 migrants have come through Denver since early December, and nearly 1,000 remain in emergency shelters hosted by non-government entities.
No matter how hard Polis tries to spin it, Colorado found itself facing the same obstacles and financial shortfalls as Republican governors due to Biden’s open border crisis and fared no better.