Since President Biden refuses to reinstate the policy approving asylum seekers before allowing them to flood our border, Denver Mayor Johnston is now threatening $180 million in budget cuts to make taxpayers deal with the problem.
Johnston told city agencies to make 15% cuts across the board to make more money available to house and feed the millions taking advantage of Biden’s border free-for-all.
If you spend it, they will come. https://t.co/q1LJ2W0Gaj
— CO Peak Politics (@COpeakpolitics) January 10, 2024
Denver is currently housing 5,000 migrants, and helped house, feed, or merely pass on to other cities an estimated 37,000 migrants over the last year.
From the Denver Gazette:
“We do not have space to add more folks that arrive nor do we have staff to support them,” Johnston said.
The Gazette adds that Johnston’s estimate is based on his assumption the city is going to house more than 4,500 migrants a day at an annual cost of $40,000 per person.
Is it just us, or do those numbers sound crazy?
Perhaps Johnston could just turn DIA into a migrant dormitory like they’re doing at O’Hare Airport in Chicago.
BREAKING: I received this from a source in O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Parts of the airport were sectioned off to house illegals. There were too many illegals and now they overflowed into the terminal area.
My source says they were mainly Hispanic men and he was asked not to… pic.twitter.com/Bo8sQWen2Y
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 10, 2024
Or, he could send kids back home for virtual learning and use schools to house migrants, like they just did in New York.
Johnston hinted that if other Colorado cities don’t help carry Sanctuary City’s burden, it will cost Denver taxpayers even more money than his initial estimate.
Meanwhile, as part of negotiations over annual government funding, House Republicans are demanding Biden turn off the border spicket and return some semblance of order to immigration, rather than letting in everyone who knocks on the door before asking questions later.
According to the New York Times, the Border Patrol has caught and released 1.7 million people at the southern border over the past two years. Those folks have a year to apply for asylum, of which about 800,000 have, but the asylum system is already backlogged by two million cases.
The Times further reports asylum seekers are fleeing from violent countries where their human rights aren’t respected, plus climate change.
So while they’re waiting for several years to have their asylum case heard, migrants are welcome to enjoy the violence and climate change offered by the U.S.
And while they might consider our meager offerings of food and shelter an offense to their human rights, at least they don’t have to pay for it.