Illinois, Cook County Spending $250 Million on Illegal Immigrants But Face Backlash for Forgetting Poor, Homeless
One activist: “But if you’re going to give out a handout, give it to the people that are already here that are struggling. That should make sense to anybody.”
Oh boy.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced a $250 million deal in additional funding to help the illegal immigrants in Chicago. It’s $70 million short of what they want.
Officials believe they need around $321 million.
The state has already committed $160 million. Now Pritzker agreed to $182 million more. Cook County will give $70 million.
So what about Chicago and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson? The media raised questions about Johnson not agreeing to the $70 million:
“I don’t know where the disagreement really exists here, the commitment to the mission is what we’re all in agreement here,” he said. “There’s a number of matters that need to be worked through.”
Johnson pushed back on criticism over his stance on the funding.
“I don’t believe anyone in the city of Chicago is questioning my commitment to this mission,” he said.
“Yes they are, because you’re not giving them the $70 million that you promised at the meeting,” a reporter responded.
“Where [sic] you at the meeting, so you’re making an assertion that I made a promise, but were you at that meeting,” Johnson fired back.
Ouch. Maybe it’s because the Chicago City Council has been hesitant about Chicago handing over money (emphasis mine):
“They’re going to keep coming, it’s going to escalate the closer we get to the DNC,” Ald. Andre Vasquez said. “So it might feel convenient that we don’t want to talk about it, but the reality is if we don’t solve for it, it is going to be worse.”
“The fact that there was an agreement and then an about-face, goes to show we don’t know where we’re getting the money from,” Ald. Anthony Beale added.
It’s Chicago. Come on, Beale.
Everyone has noticed the attention and money spent on the 35,000 illegal immigrants arriving in the sanctuary state and city. The number is still nothing compared to what the border states and cities see on a daily basis.
Tio Hardiman, the Executive Director for Violence Interrupters, lamented how the poor and homeless have become an “afterthought” to those in charge of the city and state (emphasis mine):
“The reality is that for all the poor people that have lived in Chicago, there has never been this type of effort to try and find resources. I’m not talking about Black, White, Latino. People living here already as legal citizens. Imagine a young person just getting their first apartment, their first car, how long it takes a young person to actually accomplish that ambition. Now you’re giving $9,000 rent vouchers to people that are not even legal citizens. Think about that for a minute. It’s not right. It’s not right at all,” Hardiman told Fox News Digital. “I’m not saying that people need to get a handout either. I want to make that clear. But if you’re going to give out a handout, give it to the people that are already here that are struggling. That should make sense to anybody.”
Though Hardiman acknowledged the migrant crisis has affected communities of all races, he noted that the Black community has been particularly slighted over this.
“People get mad when we talk about reparations sometimes, but if you’re going to be giving out any type of resources, why would you overlook the African-American people that have fought every world war here in the United States? People that continue to fight because we love our country just the same, but we should not be overlooked,” Hardiman said.
Yup. He’s 100% correct.
Hardiman also pointed out the problems in Chicago that affect everyone and, honestly, have been problems for as long as I can remember: “We got a mental health crisis going on in Chicago, gun violence all over the place. Gun violence is a public health issue, right? And it should be treated as such. And we just have too many people living in poverty already. So if you want to help bring people up to a degree and help them all the way out, help your people first.”
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The left will be kicking people out of their houses to make room for illegals soon enough. I think the UK is going to do it first.
They’re already trying to do it in England by clawing back housing sales to natives to give to invaders instead.
As a Crook County taxpayer, I do not want to pay for these illegals.
Since massive amounts of illegals will come each year, the costs will have massive increases in each year.
With no end in sight.
Ann Coulter is correct:
The faucet must be shut off!
I wish someone would sue a government for this sort of misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
There is ZERO legitimate argument to be made for spending taxpayer funds on non-citizens.
Especially illegals., except for evicting them from America. That will also cost dearly.
Trump wanted to have Mexico pay for a wall.
Wish he would start campaigning on having Mexico pay for the deportations, too!
The Dhimmi-crats’ tent can’t accommodate all of their diametrically-opposed coalitions, any longer. Women and trannies. Trannies & homosexuals, and, Muslims. Blacks and illegal aliens.
“But if you’re going to give out a handout, give it to the people that are already here that are struggling. That should make sense to anybody.”
“All the free money is always supposed to go to us. It’s right there in the Constitution. Or the Bible, somewhere like that.”
“Gun violence is a public health issue, right? And it should be treated as such.”
So why aren’t you locking your POCs in their houses, closing their bars, shutting down their meetings, festivals, demonstrations, wakes, funerals? Come on, we know you can do it, because you just got done doing it.
Help your own people first? Nope. Help illegal aliens first.
Don’t have any sympathy for these NIMBYs that are now realizing they are being replaced as the minority of choice in Cook County/Chicago and are getting all the benefits once reserved for them. No sympathy at all.
They all need to understand that Dems are screwing them, that the should turn out in force to elect Trump.
Trump writes mean tweets. And that is the worst thing of all.
“…Forgetting Poor and Homeless”
Actually, they didn’t forget. Cook county made a conscious decision to give criminal aliens priority over residents of the county who are American citizens.
Elections have consequences. Now they can get it good and hard.
Illinois is on a.collision course with fiscal reality. They don’t have the funds to support their way over promised public pension obligations. Yet instead of reform they plow more borrowed money into funding illegal aliens. The one party ruling class of Illinois probably does understand the coming cliff but since they won’t make needed changes that would be very painful they gonna keep spending till their credit card is finally declined.
I think Illinois’s municipal bonds are some of the lowest-rated, among U.S. states, for the reasons you mentioned. The Dhimmi-crats’ fiscal mismanagement of Illinois (and, New Jersey, California, New York, and, others) is decades-old and appalling.
The problem with these massively underfunded pension obligations for municipal retirees (really just legalized theft by public employee unions, from the taxpayers’ coffers) is that the Dhimmi-crats’ standard, reflexive response to raising money to plug fiscal gaps — raising taxes — produces diminishing returns at a certain point, by driving productive, tax-paying citizens and businesses out of the state, to more financially hospitable climes.
Indeed. The impending financial doom of Illinois is the major reason I took a vested inactive buyout for my state funded retirement money, rather than have it vaporized in 5-10 years. A bird in the hand….
Probably very wise. I suspect that many d/prog political figures in these blue cities and States are counting on a magic fairy to save them. Unfortunately for them there doesn’t seem to be ANY appetite among voters from fiscally responsible areas to call up their Rep and Sen to tell them ‘oh hell yes, please send Federal tax dollars’ to rescue d/prog politicians, public sector unions and the complacent/stupid Citizens who allowed them to get into the mess. Supporting a federal bailout seems to me to be a one way ticket to the unemployment line for politicians from fiscally responsible areas. I could be wrong about that but I doubt it.
I would phrase it differently. Most of these progressives are looking to move to a higher political office before the financial hammer comes down.
I am referring to US Senators and members of the HoR from Red States or purple States which are, in general, more fiscally sound than blue States. Their support would be needed to pass bailouts at the Federal level to shovel Federal tax dollars into the fiscal hole the blue States/Cities have dug themselves into.
I can assure you if my Rep or Senators vote in favor of that sort of legislation I will vote against them in the primary AND the general election forevermore. If they choose to vote for insane spending like a d/prog then we may as well elect a d/prog then throw that d/prog out the next cycle.
Illinois is probably just counting on an eventual bailout from the federal government which has no actual money, either, but an ability to create funny-money out of thin air.
Well the Feds can do that but only as long as someone buys the bonds, bills and notes. FWIW Saudi Arabia, Japan, China among other traditional heavy buyers of US govt debt are scaling back their purchases in favor of other investments including gold.
Re: ” Gun violence is a public health issue, right? And it should be treated as such.”
Indeed. A criminal out on the street with a record as long as your arm shoots a member of the public and they have a serious health problem.
The Governor could write a personal check for this amount. Think about that.
The people of Illinois chose their government. OK to be more accurate they tolerate whoever those in real power choose to be the figureheads. The figureheads, under the orders of those in power, chose to prioritize the welfare of the hostile army invading our country over any Americans. The people of Illinois, despite grumbling, choose to accept whatever is done at the orders of the figureheads. There is no problem until and unless the people of Illinois who remain decide to do something about it. Since they have multiple generations of willing submission on the record; the odds are that Chicago and Illinois as a whole will end up a cross between a police state and Detroit and Oakland. I believe I have used the acronym TWANLOC before. I really do not care.
Subotai Bahadur
You almost got it. In reality it’s the people of $#!+cago who choose the government of Illinois.
It’s difficult for the downstaters and those in the collar counties to overcome the Chicago machine.
Virginia has a strange political arrangement where they have counties, and they have cities that may be “in” the county they’re geographically in… or they may not. Fairfax City is landlocked by Fairfax County, but isn’t a part of it. Alexandria and Arlington are cities which are also their own counties.
When I lived there, I thought it was a weird arrangement. But now I think it might be pretty rewarding to do the same thing to blue cities and red states.
Right, but the next shoe to fall will be Illinois demanding that the federal gov’t provide Illinois with huge funds to cope with this “emergency.” That is when the choice of Illinois voters begins to tap all U.S. taxpayers. Then there will be something for non-Illinois voters to care about.
Woke progressive leftists telling black amercians they should get in the back of the waiting line behind illegal aliens??
Especially the sexually divergent illegal aliens.
The poor and homeless are already safe Democrat votes so now they need to work on recruiting even more safe votes.
exactlllllyyyy!!!
no money is being lost by the welfare cradle to grave crew
the left has no budget
the money is still pouring into those that normally get it
youve been duped if you think that any money going to illegals/migrants whatever you call them means the stop of the “other” money
again
THE LEFT DOESNT BELIEVE IN BUDGETS
“…give it to the people that are already here that are struggling.”
Tells you who they work for.
It’s bigger than people in country. I have heard tell of the old-school Imperialists who would deal with foreign nations for the benefit of the people within their own. Good times.