Chicago Residents Blast Brandon Johnson Over Spending on Migrants
Andi Shae Napier, Washington Examiner, December 3, 2024
Chicago residents called out Mayor Brandon Johnson at a City Council meeting Monday for spending over half a billion dollars of the city’s budget on sheltering migrants.
The money has been going to the New Arrivals Mission, a program designed to provide short-term emergency shelter to meet the needs of the humanitarian crisis. The program was started in 2022 and has since cost the city $574.5 million.
“The city of Chicago is out of the business of funding illegals.”
Fed-up Chicago residents went scorched-earth on Mayor Brandon Johnson during a city council meeting after the city spent more than half a billion dollars sheltering illegal immigrants. pic.twitter.com/FFTxfn8uqu
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 3, 2024
In addition to the strain the initiative is placing on the budget, the city is staring down a budget deficit of a billion dollars. In an attempt to fill the gap, Johnson proposed a roughly $60 million property tax increase at the City Council meeting. Residents wasted little time in responding.
“I got a great way what we can do with this budget. First, let’s start with cutting off illegals getting free everything, free housing, free schooling, free food. Yeah, let’s start with that. That’ll save us a lot of money,” one woman told Johnson during the meeting’s public comments, according to Fox News.
“Let’s start there. Then, let’s start with you. Your salary. You are going down in history as the worst mayor in America. Let’s start with cutting yours. You making too much money,” she added.
Johnson’s office reminded residents in April of the hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers bussed north to Chicago by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX).
{snip}
The mayor has said the city will continue to be a sanctuary for noncitizen migrants.
{snip}
