Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson called on police to remove city residents after Monday’s City Council public forum was disrupted by participants protesting budget changes that would allocate more money to illegal immigrants.
The Chicago City Council passed Johnson’s proposed budget after six weeks of negotiations after police removed residents who spoke out during the recess, Fox News reported. reported. Residents defrauded city officials who sought a $40 million loan as part of the city budget. (Related: ‘This is the result’: Sheriff Blue says ‘porous borders’ are reason for ‘preventable’ murder of mother of five)
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“He is trying to pull out a $40 million loan line and push the city further into debt,” one city resident said during the public comment period. “It’s your fault for giving half of your money to illegal aliens.”
State and city officials have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to provide housing, clothing and food for the more than 35,000 migrants who were taken to the Windy City, FOX News previously reported. report.
Another resident told Mr. Johnson and the City Council: “You funneled all this money to illegal immigrants.” “Everything you go through is not real.”
Immigrant housing protests have erupted in Chicago, and Black residents have taken legal action to prevent Chicago from using a closed high school and two other sites on the city’s south side as shelters in 2023. Ta. According to Go to ABC7Chicago.com.
Many illegal immigrants were headed to cities such as Chicago and New York City, and many were bussed there by border state governors. In 2022, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, along with then-Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, began busing migrants to so-called “sanctuary” cities to reduce tensions in border communities.
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