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"This immigration bill does have a cost associated with it. If more and more people become legal permanent residents, they quality for some government programs, but all of the leading economists agree that for every dollar that is paid out in a federal program to a legal permanent resident, $10 are returned to the economy because they'll be able to work and buy homes," Durbin said.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The dems just can’t win fairly always have to cheat. Durbin time to retire. We need an audit done here to see why Durbin always wins at every election, check the voting machines. Americans need the jobs not Illegals!
Fixed: Durbin: Dems offering illegals a path to vote Democrat, in filibuster-proof bill because ‘we need to never allow another Republican to get in our way’ in US – Just the News
Can we all just agree that Dick Durbin is a prime example of everything that is wrong with lifetime politicians in the country? This do nothing doofus has had his face stuck in the government feedbag since day one, and has made it his life’s work to screw over the hardworking taxpayer on who’s back this country has been built. I can’t think of a life form lower than this bloviating buffoon. Whatever this worthless piece of garbage suggests, the country should move in the opposite direction.
Dick Durbin, a lifetime of getting fatter and wealthier courtesy of the tax payers. It also runs in the family!
Dick Durbin pushing the canard again that illiterate, unskilled illegals will help America. Durbin is a dirtbag.
Create a labor shortage by flooding the country with federal cash-for-nothing then open the border to fill it.
Subversive a-hole. At this rate these tyrants will need personal protection for the rest of their despicable lives.
Is it only me or is America on the path of self destruction.
Such an idiot! Stop giving out unemployment handouts then maybe people who are already citizens will be encouraged to return to work! Then we can talk about a path to citizenship for those who are refugees or migrate here legally!
Durbin is a bozo. America doesn’t need more potential workers. America needs to arrest and throw out all illegal immigrant criminals who are undercutting wages for low wage workers. America’s businesses and government should work for Americans first and foremost. There are millions of potential workers in America inner cities who are discouraged from working by the illegal immigrants undercutting their wages> I thought that Democrats stood up for the inner city? What is really going on is that Democrats think that they can import voters with an illegal immigrant criminal amnesty bill. Nothing more. Durbin doesn’t give a rats… Read more »