It’s super easy to declare yourself a sanctuary city, refusing to cooperate with federal authorities, primarily ICE, and supporting unfettered illegal immigration. It’s something else entirely to have to put your beliefs into practice
Democratic cities brace for a nightmare winter housing migrants
Migrants in Chicago huddle on the floors of police stations and sleep in city buses kept running overnight to block out the cold. In Massachusetts, where the emergency shelter system hit capacity earlier this month, the state is converting office space into shelters and at least one local group is stockpiling sleeping bags.
And in New York, where shelters are also full, the city has taken the extraordinary steps of providing migrants one-way plane tickets to as far away as Morocco and have contemplated handing out tents to newly-arriving migrants so they can sleep in parks.
Northern cities and states that have been overwhelmed by a surge in migrants are now out of room to house them just as the weather turns cold — a potentially life-threatening situation that’s inflaming local political tensions as the Biden administration largely leaves these Democratic strongholds to fend for themselves.
“The state that took my ancestors in fleeing from pogroms in Ukraine will not allow asylum seekers to freeze to death on our doorsteps,” Gov. JB Pritzker said last week, referring to his family’s immigration to Illinois.
In Sanctuary City Chicago, today will have a high of 39. Sunday is 36 with potential for snow. Monday is 30. Have fun! You wanted all those illegals to enter the nation, now you deal with it. And for all the illegals, well, you wanted to come to the U.S. Enjoy!
A DHS official not authorized to speak publicly said about $800 million has been allocated for temporary shelter and other services through various emergency food and shelter programs.
How could $800 million help legal U.S. citizens? Quite a bit, eh?
Pritzker said at least $65 million of the new $160 million the state is investing to address its migrant surge will go toward a “winterized soft shelter site” to house up to 2,000 migrants
$160 million sure could help the citizens of Illinois, eh?
Pritzker repeated his concern that the migrant crisis is an issue requiring broader federal coordination and said Chicago officials haven’t “moved fast enough” to deal with it: “We’re stepping in here to try to help and accelerate this process.”
Hey, he’s the governor: why can he not get things done? Isn’t that his job?
“As the temperature starts to drop, it is crucial — now more than ever — that the federal government finish the job they started,” Adams’ spokesperson Kayla Mamelak Altus said in a statement. “We need meaningful financial help and a national decompression strategy. New York City cannot continue to manage a national crisis almost entirely on its own.”
Hey, he and his Democrat ilk wanted illegal immigration: now they get to deal with it. What is a “national decompression strategy”? In my mind it’s shutting the border as much as possible, turning away all illegals and people demanding asylum (no applying outside), deporting most here in the U.S., and taking a several decade pause to allow those who are here that are being allowed to stay to assimilate, just has been done many times. To Adams, it probably means lots of cash and shipping illegals elsewhere.
Meanwhile, good news: lots of Chinese are being caught crossing the border. 24,000. That we know about.
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