We can fix this by taxing residents a lot more to make sure those services do not suffer. We know that Chicago is a sanctuary city, well, Cook County long ago voted to not cooperate with ICE unless ICE jumped through tons of hoops (it’s an Axios story, hence the formatting)
How Cook County residents say they think migrant arrivals impact local services
Cook County residents worry the migrant crisis is straining resources, but many also support helping the new arrivals, according to a recent Loyola University survey.
Why it matters: The findings challenge a pervasive narrative about attitudes toward migrants and could influence public officials’ thinking.
The big picture: Young people, Democrats, women and Asians expressed the most sympathy for migrants, along with a willingness to help them.
Gen X and boomers were almost twice as likely as people ages 18-30 to endorse turning migrants away.
Between the lines: Those who believe migrants live in their neighborhoods are least likely to say they want to help them and most likely to advocate for slowing the flow of arrivals.
So 73% say that illegals are not all that helpful. Because the money really should be going to American residents. But, hey, these people vote Democrat in high percentages, so, they’re getting what they asked for.
Meanwhile
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration announced that on Saturday it will begin removing about 800 migrants who have been housed inside five Chicago Park District facilities across the city, opening up the last of the field houses to the public again.
The use of the five sites where migrants will be cleared — Gage Park and Piotrowski Park, both on the Southwest Side, the Broadway Armory Park and Leone Park, both on the Far North Side, and Brands Park on the Northwest Side — has generated significant controversy in the neighborhoods where they are located. The city was placing migrants in Park District space that is traditionally used for athletic and enrichment activities.
Well, that’s just rude. Why do the Democrats in Chicago not want the illegals in their parks? That’s very selfish.
No need to grasp for reasons to reject these people from your community and demand they be sent back where they belong. “We don’t want to live around them and we don’t want them in our community” is reason good enough. Don’t worry about being called raycissss. Worry about maintaining your family, your community, your history, your identity, and your safety.
Agreed Brother John. Our communities belong to us just like our country belongs to us. If we’re not gonna fight for them we’re not gonna have them much longer. The leftist Democrat/ commie/ Nazis take no prisoners. They’re always complaining about how bad America is yet it seems the immigration train runs only one way in and never out. Just like H is always bragging about how wonderful the blue states are except people are leaving them by the hundreds of thousands. If they’re so damn great why is everybody leaving?
Another point I’d like to make. When these cities or states declare themselves “sanctuary” and refuse to follow federal laws etcetera At that point they’re doing exactly what the confederacy did and that is leaving the union. In fact that makes them insurrectionists. They should immediately be cut from all federal largesse. They should no longer receive any federal money for anything. I think that’s only fair.
CarolAnn,
How do you define “our”, “us” and “we” as in “Our communities belong to us just like our country belongs to us. If we’re not gonna fight for them we’re not gonna have them much longer”.
Most of our federal taxes come from our cities. Do you agree that if these cities are cut off from federal funds that their citizens should not pay federal taxes? I believe that is only fair.
The same way you do, I imagine. We are speaking English after all. That’s the problem with leftists like you. Every time you disagree with something you want all the terms redefined. That’s also why you’re constantly redefining the constitution. As soon as you as you run across a line that you don’t like you wanna change it or its meaning.
So you actually believe that in our Republic only the people paying the taxes should derive the benefits there from? Think about where that rabbit hole leads you Elwood. What I do agree with is that our cities should obey federal law. And speaking the English language I realized that when they call themselves sanctuary cities they are cutting themselves off from the responsibility of enforcing federal law. Before the Democrats distorted law in America the governments of cities that did that would be treated the same way the January 6th protesters were treated: as insurrectionists.
I gotta give you Nazis credit you’re always figuring new ways to destroy our Republic.
Carol,
Liberals/communist feel that everything comes from the Federal government. The cities get money for useless programs, schools get money from the Feds and we can easily see that our schools are failing as a result.
I can remember when none of these programs were in place. We were free, cities were clean and crime minimal, kids obtained excellent education and had a bright future to look to.
Now, we are dying thanks to the liberals. They have even been able to return racism with the DEI program which is a modern version of Jim Crow.
Brother types: “We don’t want to live around them and we don’t want them in our community” is reason enough.
Does this maxim only apply to Hispanic immigrants? If a Muslim or Asian or Hindu or Black or green card holding Filipino family bought a house in your neighborhood would you want to go elsewhere?
Would you move?
Chicken Little Man
Does this maxim only apply to Hispanic immigrants? If a Muslim or Asian or Hindu or Black or green card holding Filipino family bought a house in your neighborhood would you want to go elsewhere?
Would you move?
In my distant past… Okay, early to mid 60’s, I managed to rent a house in Frayser (north Memphis).
It was a very middle class neighborhood. Green yards, trees, garages for off street parking… And you never saw a police car because there was no crime..
A few years ago I was in Memphis and wound up having some spare time. Nostalgia led me to drive back to the neighborhood.
It is now a slum. Trashy yards, abandoned cars, bars on home’s windows…And I saw two police cars driving around.
BTW – I never saw a white person walking or driving a car… Wonder why??
Who is “us?” That in your mind might be difficult to define; but it’s very, very easy to say who it’s NOT.
As for my neighborhood, “a” this-or-that makes no difference to me because I strive to deal with all as individuals; but when wave after wave arrives in a short period of time almost as if by design, we have a problem.
Diversity is not our strength, it is a horrible blight and an obstacle to overcome and it’s extremely and OBVIOUSLY stupid to claim otherwise. Anyone who has insisted that it is “our strength” should have his tongue pulled out with a pair of pliers on national TV.
“Media says border crisis is not an invasion, it’s simply a group of military-aged males using force against our military to enter and occupy the country”. I feel better…. BB
Other sovereign nations have handled the dilution of their culture. USSR, Russia, Germany, Japan, Armenia, Darfur, Sudan, Rwanda, China, Cuba, France, Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Philippines have purged their population of undesirables, e.g., Jews, Hutus, Ba’athists, non-communists, communists, Nazis, foreigners, Armenians, elites, scientists, Batistas, Sunnis, vishystes, Shia, criminals etc.
Would you favor President Trump firing, expelling, imprisoning, executing Deep State bureaucrats, known Democrats, left-wingers, non-Christians and non-citizens who are destroying America? Should he shut down the left-wing media, i.e., NY Times, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, The Atlantic, etc who promote anti-conservatism? Should he take control of public schools forcing the teaching of the goodness of America?
More repetitive libturd “narrative”, hey Rimjob?
It is quite amazing training puppies, how Elwood manages to bring everything but the kitchen sink into a statement that he completely knows the answer to. I guess he thinks that makes him sound smart. It doesn’t. Perhaps he thinks it’s provocative. It isn’t, it shows a complete abandonment of logic and intellect because rather than having a dialogue he’d rather have an argument. Rather trying to meet halfway he’d rather drive his boogeyman Trump in somehow thinking that that makes everything OK.
So when you say “Other sovereign nations have handled the dilution of their culture” what you’re really saying is that you want to dilute our culture. But we don’t. If you want a diluted culture go to one of the ones you previously named they obviously like bastardizing their history there culture their society their religion their politics their policy and their history. We don’t need to. We have as good as it gets and we’re trying to make it better. We can’t make it better with Nazis like you in the midst. Nor communists, nor fascists, and the other groups of fanatics that you stated are destroying America. Then as usual you go off the Cliff and suggest the shutting down of left wing news media. I don’t espouse that. But I do espouse for every leftist news program or newspaper there’s a conservative one to counteract it. Right now it’s about 30 to one against conservatives do you think that’s right?
And I don’t believe that he if you mean Trump nor anyone else should “take control” of public schools. Only in nazi like yourself would even think like that. In fact I believe all control of public schools should be local and the Dept of Ed should be abolished.
Once again you have projected your opinions on other. Shame on you bubba.
Rimjob is not the only dumbass to think that way.
That’s 800,000 votes.
Bwaha! Lolgf