It’s official. Chicago’s woke racist mayor has announced that the sanctuary city is all ‘sanctuaried’ out.
“Let me state this clearly: The city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
That adds Chicago to the list of sanctuary cities that are all done. Illinois and Chicago claim to have spent $250 million coping with the illegal alien invasion. (But if Chiraq lives up to its rich history of resource reallocation much of that money may have ended up in private bank accounts and on casino tables.)
Chiraq is claiming that it can’t cope because 50 illegal aliens are coming in by bus every day. Now imagine if Chicago were actually located near the border. But those parts of Texas and Arizona are expected to take it.
Chicago’s mayor is already crying that he can’t take it, alongside New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams.
Chicago officials said the city has welcomed a bus full of migrants nearly every day since the beginning of July.
In all, more than 12,000 people have arrived in the city since last August, mostly from Central and South America.
Meanwhile, hundreds of migrant men, women and children continue to sleep on police station floors, despite efforts to move them into shelters.
“The timeline is now,” said Beatriz Ponce de León, Chicago’s deputy mayor of immigrant, migrant and refugee rights. “We are working diligently across the city to expand our shelters, looking first and foremost at our city-owned properties and then also creating new opportunities. We know that the police stations are a temporary place.”
“Really the challenges are tremendous,” Ponce de León said. “This is a humanitarian crisis. We have no control over the buses. … Folks are arriving at Chicago’s doorstep, and we’re a welcoming city. So we are doing our best to welcome our new neighbors, to treat people with dignity, to help and to put them on a path where they can resettle here in the city.”
New York City is done even pretending to be welcoming the invaders. D.C. is at capacity and has declared an emergency. So did Massachusets.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency Tuesday, citing an influx of migrants seeking shelter at a time when the cost of housing – already in short supply – continues to rise.
There are nearly 5,600 families or more than 20,000 people – many of whom are migrants — currently living in state shelters, including infants, young children and pregnant women. That is up from around 3,100 families a year ago, about an 80% increase, Healey said.
Many of the migrants are arriving by plane from other states. In the past 48 hours alone, she said, 50 migrant families have landed in the state in need of shelter.
“It’s exponentially more than our state has ever served in our emergency assistance program,” she said.
How many more invaders have to come before the sanctuary cities officially decide that maybe the country should have some borders after all?