Outraged resident warns what $70M migrant funding will do to sanctuary city

A Chicago resident and activist who protested against different tranche of backing going toward migrant attraction successful nan Windy City is informing that nan metropolis risks going bankrupt if it continues -- days aft nan metropolis assembly greenish lit nan further $70 cardinal contempt furious opposition.

"The main objection is that location seems to beryllium nary extremity successful sight," P Rae Easley told Fox News Digital successful an interview. "Every 3 aliases 4 months, location seems to beryllium immoderate caller ballot for a monolithic magnitude of payer costs to beryllium allocated to nan illegals, and we person to put a extremity to it aliases it's going to bankrupt our city."

The assembly voted 30-18 to o.k. nan petition made by Mayor Brandon Johnson successful bid to thief woody pinch nan ongoing migrant crisis it is facing. That money is connected apical of a $150 cardinal assigned to migrant attraction successful nan fund already.

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Mayor Johnson’s agency said nan backing petition was to guarantee nan metropolis is prepared "should location beryllium immoderate abrupt increases successful caller arrivals sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott." The metropolis intends to supply "basic necessities" including food, shelter, aesculapian care, education, vaccines, lawsuit guidance and resettlement support.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gives an update connected migrant issues astatine City Hall connected Jan. 29, 2024 successful Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

According to Johnson’s office, nan metropolis has astatine its highest been dealing pinch much than 2,000 migrants coming successful a week. Nearly 40,000 person arrived since August 2022

However, nan petition drew important guidance from residents who judge that illegal immigrants are being prioritized complete residents. 

Easley, who is simply a governmental abolitionist and hosts a power show successful Chicago, said she was not amazed by nan Council’s support but said nan number of progressives who voted against it shows nan support for specified backing is opening to break down arsenic much residents speak out.

"It was owed to nan opposition," said Easley, who was antecedently an intern for then-state Senator Barack Obama.

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Recently arrived migrants beryllium connected cots and nan level of a makeshift shelter operated by nan metropolis astatine OHare International Airport connected Aug. 31, 2023. ( (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images))

Easley highlighted nan request successful nan metropolis for further resources for rehab for addicts, arsenic good arsenic nan restoration of carrier for wide acquisition students successful nan city.

"If nan metropolis has money, past that money needs to beryllium allocated to pupil transportation, because we're already successful a territory pinch 40% absenteeism. So it's not adjacent that they were capable to supply proscription for nan illegals and not American children of taxpayers," she said.

One lawmaker had pointed to anterior waves of immigrants that nan U.S. had received. Easley rejected that narrative.

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"Two things. Number one, I americium a Negro woman, which intends that I americium 100% American and that migration communicative does not beryllium to me. But beyond that, nan immigrants that came to this state came present legally, whether it beryllium done Ellis Island aliases nan Port of New Orleans," she said. 

"The intent of immigrating to this state is for america to vet who you are earlier you get present and person a grounds of your entry. People who are coming present without a grounds of entry, who person not been vetted astatine an embassy, who do not person immoderate fingerprints, each of those things airs a threat to our metropolis owed to imaginable information breaches," she said.

She besides stressed that her and her friends were not reflexively against nan mayor.

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"I conscionable want group to cognize that we're not an anti-Brandon Johnson group. We are an anti-chaos and progressivism group. And if he chooses to beryllium nan spokesperson for them, past he deserves each of nan power that we're pushing against them," she warned.