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In Chicago, more arrivals prompted by the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era law that curbed immigration, started overwhelming shelters in April. As city officials looked for more spaces to house the migrants, they directed the overflow to the lobbies of police stations across the city.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The real heroes of the city are the people who help people in need. They do it for free and no huge pensions or great health care programs. They actually get results and bring them into the system to become productive citizens.
Illegal immigration should never be tolerated or subsidized by taxpayers. Illegal immigration needs to be stopped and legal immigration needs to be stopped or curtailed to a miniscule amount. As many illegal immigrants as possible need to be deported. Part of me thinks it’s poetic justice that illegal immigrants are being foisted upon the largely liberal voters of Chicago, but money from taxpayers across Illinois, even from the many conservative regions of Illinois, will be used on the illegal immigrants in Chicago. Also, the illegal immigrants in Chicago will eventually find some way to vote which will push the entire… Read more »
Housing illegals in jail cells would make sense. Heck, Cook County thinned out the jail population- made room for the Biden-sponsored invasion.
Jail ‘em or send ‘em all back to where they came from – and I don’t mean Texas.
Stop this nonsense and support LEGAL immigration!
We must keep the invaders safe. How about a fire drill every 45 minutes
Ge, I thoughtmy property taxes were paid to fund police protection; not to operate a flop house for illegals.
Pathetic. This is the third-worldization of Chicago. The Chicago of your grandfather will not be the Chicago of your grandchildren. The former was a growing world class city, the later will be blighted city full of third world immigrants who failed to assimilate.