Something is happening in Chicago as the Windy City residents seem to be waking up to the costs of illegal immigration.

chicago city council voted overwhelmingly Earlier this month, a plan to allocate a $51 million fund to detain illegal immigrants came under fire from many voters. City council meetings were packed with Chicagoans outraged that the city is devoting so much resources to illegal immigrants, while many residents live without quality food and housing. Many of the residents are African-American, but they felt betrayed by the city council and recently elected mayor Brandon Johnson’s prioritization of illegal immigrants over the city’s black community.

“We need to allocate some of this money for our black children and our black community. We are getting nothing for our community. Enough,” said one resident.

Many of these people are believed to have voted and campaigned for Mr Johnson, who won the mayoral election earlier this year on promises of expanded welfare for illegal immigrants. give them Access to voting franchises.

Chicago voters are beginning to find their political and economic power eroded by the city’s current flood of illegal immigrants, and they are frustrated. For years, Chicago has touted itself as a sanctuary city that welcomes all immigrants, legal and illegal. The Windy City is her third most dangerous sanctuary city in the country. according to Analysis of the Immigration Reform Law Institute.

For many years, the issue of illegal immigration was treated as an abstract concept by the city, and its sanctuary status was treated by city leaders as a virtuous way of demonstrating their humanity. It’s been broken But now, the effects of that virtue signal are real, and many Chicagoans are panicking.

Illegal immigration is wreaking cultural, political and economic havoc, and Chicago is now grappling with many of the same problems border towns have grappling with for decades. The pandemonium was wrought by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the cities eventually started throwing money together.

Over the past two years, these governors have taken advantage of the Biden administration’s open borders to transport illegal immigrants by bus to major sanctuary cities, including Chicago.new york is now forced Contain illegal immigrants in school gymnasiums, and even under consideration I do the same thing at my house.

Over 5 million illegal immigrants crossed The southern border has been closed since Joe Biden took office, and Sanctuary Cities are learning painfully that the country cannot accommodate all these new people. Illegal immigration no longer only affects rural communities on the border, but is causing tension in big cities that have encouraged illegal immigration for years, and has little impact on its own. Cities like Chicago and New York can change their protected area status whenever they want, but to do so they have to admit that border security defenders were right all along: Mass immigration certainly does. of the American people, which squeezes resources, depresses wages, and diminishes political and economic power.

Ultimately, angry Chicagoans will have the final say on the matter, thanks to a democratic process. You can elect new leaders who consistently do not put illegal immigrants above the welfare of the people, or you can continue to pressure current leaders to change course. Chicagoans, who no longer want to deal with the effects of illegal immigration, have taken power over the city’s future into their own hands. What they do with it is up to them.

William J. Davis Immigration Reform Law Instituteis a public interest law firm that works to protect the rights and interests of the American people from the ill effects of mass immigration.

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