We'll see if their increasingly insane gambles pay off in the end.
The Denver City Council is doubling down on policies that offer free shelter and food to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally, which officials in west Texas say have been the primary draw to Colorado's most populous city.
In an overview Tuesday of the city's response to the crisis -- the so-called "Newcomer Program" -- councilmembers learned that the immigrants will receive, at taxpayers' expense, six months of rental, food and utility assistance, a computer, prepaid cell phone and metro bus passes.
In other words: We're paying them a salary for breaking our laws.
"We designed this program to be holistic," said Sarah Plastino, who is in charge of the city's response.
Whenever someone starts using the word "holistic," hold on to your wallets and try to cling to your sanity, because it's going to get stupid fast.
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About 760 immigrants -- Plastino told councilmembers in attendance -- are enrolled in the extended assistance program. Her office hopes to increase that number to 800 in the coming weeks, she said.
This first cohort is expected to "graduate" from the program in December or January, Plastino said.
It's all part of a new strategy that pivots away from an emergency response to a long-term plan, a move that came on the heels of Mayor Mike Johnston trying to rein in spending and find the $90 million cost to pay for the immigrant response.
Over the past 17 months, Denver had received nearly 42,000 immigrants.
That is roughly the size of Brighton, which is located about 20 miles northeast of downtown Denver and is the county seat of neighboring Adams County.
Not all have stayed.
But plane, train and bus tickets purchased for immigrants to travel to their final U.S. destination suggest about half may have.
Their arrival has pushed the city's finances to a breaking point. To finance its response, the city had cut some services, frozen hiring and decided against planting flowers to save money.
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To date, Denver's response has cost taxpayers about $70 million -- and counting.
Early in the crisis, city leaders decided that Denver taxpayers would assume the cost to temporarily feed, shelter and transport immigrants to their final destination.
While Denver officials long speculated that the city's proximity to the U.S. border, its transportation hub, which connects to major cities across the country, and status as a "sanctuary city" were the draw for immigrants, El Paso officials in west Texas point to something else: free shelter and tickets for onward travel.
So many racist black people objecting to social services being diverted to non-citizen "newcomers."
Do you think Jake Tapper will pontificate about how racist he thinks black people are?
What about the Hispanics who want illegal immigration stopped, Fake Jake? Are they racist against Brown People (TM) too?
Invasionary armies are getting tired of waiting for Border Patrol coming to pick them up to bring them into the country illegally, so they've resorted to self-help.
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Pretty sure that OBK foretold this.
If not, he should have
Yes. People are stupid news of the day! That is funny.
BidenBros/Commie Crew will be there with rainbows on!
New York? Things are changing fast!
Future Biden voter on a rampage. Note that the cop pulled the citizen off the assailant and tackled him and got stabbed in the back
Standby bitches it's gonna get real for the commieCrew!
It's a mental disorder and we're arguing with people incapable of applying basic logic in most of their opinions.
She assaulted him and deserved to have her face bashed in. Her bahavior is child abuse and she should have been charged with a crime.
All cultures are equal, some just have spicier food.
Dems definitely have priorities and it ain't America First.
https://ace.mu.nu/
All they do is double down.
For now.
We'll see if their increasingly insane gambles pay off in the end.
In other words: We're paying them a salary for breaking our laws.
Whenever someone starts using the word "holistic," hold on to your wallets and try to cling to your sanity, because it's going to get stupid fast.
So many racist black people objecting to social services being diverted to non-citizen "newcomers."
Do you think Jake Tapper will pontificate about how racist he thinks black people are?
What about the Hispanics who want illegal immigration stopped, Fake Jake? Are they racist against Brown People (TM) too?
Invasionary armies are getting tired of waiting for Border Patrol coming to pick them up to bring them into the country illegally, so they've resorted to self-help.
It's a sickness. A psychosis. A death wish
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1796987638265631159?t=3AQlVOaH77W4S_maGmlsnQ&s=19
Was at a bar when this came on the TV. Place went silent and lots of heads nodding.
Run it up. Show no mercy.