{"id":6490,"date":"2024-02-16T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2024-02-16T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:58:58","slug":"mountain-of-expenses-denvers-fiscal-woes-climb-as-illegal-aliens-overwhelm-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/mountain-of-expenses-denvers-fiscal-woes-climb-as-illegal-aliens-overwhelm-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain of Expenses: Denver\u2019s Fiscal Woes Climb as Illegal Aliens Overwhelm City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a very good opinion piece on exactly what is going on, who is responsible, and what are some of their goals. Begs the question, as many Americans are waking up to the OCGFC control and not working for their megacorps, not wanting anything to do with the military, police, fire… are they importing workers with the intention to give them a direct path to citizenship by serving? Does the extraction of the church<\/a> play some part in what they are doing<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/02\/15\/denvers-financial-apocalypse-from-illegal-immigration-is-a-disaster-of-its-own-making\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Jarett Stepman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Venezulean illegal immigrants wait to get paperwork to be admitted to shelters at a processing center on May 9 in Denver. (Photo: Helen H. Richardson\/Media News Group\/The Denver Post\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denver is buckling under a financial crisis caused by illegal immigration. But the fault lies not in the stars, but with the city itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDenver will cut hours at recreation centers, end in-person vehicle-registration renewals and eliminate spring flower beds to save $5 million this year, a response to the migrant crisis that is expected to cost the city $180 million,\u201d the Colorado Sun reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the city isn\u2019t just cutting corners on niche city services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to KUSA-TV, the local NBC News affiliate, the city is asking nearly every city department\u2014from animal shelters to the police department<\/a>\u2014to make budget cuts so they can meet the cost of the new arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City officials are also asking for the department that oversees elections to cut nearly a million dollars in an election year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The District Attorney\u2019s Office has been asked to make a 5% cut, despite the fact that the city has been racked by violent crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many other jurisdictions, Denver is paying the price for President Joe Biden\u2019s border crisis\u2014and for its own status as a sanctuary city. In 2017, the city passed an ordinance codifying its resistance to federal immigration enforcement<\/a>. Then-Mayor Michael Hancock, a Democrat, said of illegal immigrants at the time: \u201cWe\u2019ve got your backs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Biden has been in office, we see what it\u2019s like when local and federal authorities are equally lawless: Unchecked catastrophic chaos and financial implosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denver\u2019s current mayor, Democrat Mike Johnston, perhaps not surprisingly, is pointing the finger at former President Donald Trump and Republicans for the mess his city is in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He blamed them because they refused to support the so-called Senate border bill<\/a>\u2014probably better described as a massive foreign aid and nonprofit organization slush fund bill<\/a>\u2014that would have helped codify illegal immigration and bogus asylum-seeking, rather than stop them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe choice by Republicans in Congress to purposefully kill a historic, bipartisan border deal \u2026 will have a devastating impact in Denver,\u201d Johnston said after<\/a> Republicans blocked the deal, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Johnston insisted that the problem is in no way caused by the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who have come to the Colorado city. In one sense, I agree: If he\u2019s looking for blame, he should look in the mirror and at his friends running the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats and left-wing activists have no desire to halt the unprecedented spike in illegal immigration. They just want it to look less chaotic so voters won\u2019t be quite as angry about the disaster. And sanctuary city and sanctuary state leaders want a big federal bailout funded by the American taxpayer to deal with the massive holes in their budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They want you to pay for their mess. We borrow and spend so much money these days, nobody will know the difference, they must think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denver has tried to shunt their problem onto other Colorado<\/a> communities. This testimony from a Lakewood, Colorado, resident on Tuesday sums up the dynamic. It was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, by LibsofTikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Residents of Lakewood, CO unloaded on the city council last night after Denver suggested sending more illegals to their city and sheltering them on the taxpayer dime.

Illegals have brought crime, pr*stitut*on, and drugs to their quiet town.

Biden won this county by 18 points in\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/2GZqegDw4W<\/a>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Typical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we, the people, want any control over this situation, then we have to make sure that the Denver, New York City<\/a>, and other besieged blue cities pay for their own self-inflicted problems. Don\u2019t let them shift the burden, financial and otherwise, elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll add that the sheer cost of the border crisis isn\u2019t even the worst part of this whole disaster. They want you to pay while they hack away at the foundation of our free society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complete evaporation of border enforcement portends something much worse than just the immediate effects of bloated budgets, cut services, dysfunctional cities and increased crime, as bad as all those things are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it signals is a demolition of even the concept of citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denver gives us another glimpse into the next stage of this farce. While Colorado has a law on the books preventing noncitizens from voting<\/a>, Denver is potentially throwing open the door for noncitizens to become police officers and firefighters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I were joking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Axios, two City Council members proposed on Monday<\/a> \u201cstriking language from the city charter preventing the city\u2019s police and fire departments from hiring noncitizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep in mind, this is the same City Council that has tried several times to defund the police<\/a> as crime spun out of control. Yet, the Left wants to make it so people who have broken our laws and who have demonstrated no loyalty to the United States can be the police officers of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This police and fire proposal is nearly as perverse as a proposal from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to allow illegal immigrants join the military<\/a>. They really just want troops and members of our protective services to be loyal to their regime<\/a>, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is end-stage Roman Empire stuff, brought to you by the Democratic Party. For people who obsess over the destruction of \u201cour democracy,\u201d the Left sure seems to have little regard for, well, democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden-caused border crisis isn\u2019t just an economic or law enforcement problem; it\u2019s a direct attack on self-government. It\u2019s an effective tool to water down and obliterate the meaning of citizenship. It\u2019s an attempt to transform the United States from a free republic based on deliberation and consent of the governed into a vast economic zone of farcical ballot-harvesting and technocratic rule from on high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denver sowed the seeds for this illegal immigration crisis years ago, just as many other big, blue cities have done. Federal policies exposed the reality of the problem. They are now paying a price for their decisions\u2014as they must, if we as a nation have any hope of pulling out of this catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a very good opinion piece on exactly what is going on, who is responsible, and what are some of their goals. Begs the question, as many Americans are waking up to the OCGFC control and not working for their megacorps, not wanting anything to do with the military, police, fire… are they importing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}