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At the shelter run by volunteers overseen by Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, asylum-seekers were promised safety and help to settle in the city in early May. But efforts stagnated and the shelter is troubled, say some of the migrants living there. “But many are scared to speak because we have nowhere else to go,” one migrant said. “Es lo mismo que allá, opinas y te meten preso,” she added, explaining that she feels oppressed like she did in her native country of Venezuela, where if she spoke up, she could end up in jail.
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 Border Jumpers were safer where they came from.
Did they really think Chicago was the Promised Land?
Land of milk and honey!
Manna from heaven!
The Parting of the Rio Grande!
Asylum seekers? Or just plain illegal invaders?
Love it. You go girl. Move yourself and some of your friends into BJ’s office lobby. Kick up a big Venezuelan fuss, Make sure the press is there.
Make ’em toss you out on the five O’clock news.
Illinois is a Sanctuary State, by God!
Hold ’em to it, I say…
Remember, these Venezuelans voted to turn Venezuela into a social he11hole, and now they’ve come here to do the same to Chicago.
The problem with leftists is that they assume all groups of people are interchangeable. One group of asylum seekers is no different than the other. This is clearly not true. I’m sure there were some short-haired harpies in 376 screeching “Just let the Visigoths over the Danube! It’s a human right!” as the barbarian invaded enslaved their children, consumed all their valuable resources and stole whatever else remained.
I don’t have a clue what has transpired recently in Venezuela, but I’m confident it is more complicated than voting. US sanctions destroyed them, among other things. The USA has overthrown more South American countries than I can think of without checking my notes. Guatemala is still in peril today because of a US backed coup to preserve exploitative profits of a banana company in the 50’s. This is where the term banana republic comes from.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10715
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
How did Venezuela become communist again? * * * * * * * * * As The Martha’s Vineyard Times explained (once the illegals were safely expelled and the island fumigated), Venezuela’s “humanitarian crisis” resulted from that country’s “complicated political and socioeconomic history.” Actually, it’s not that complicated. Poor people in Venezuela voted for it. Oh boy, did they vote for it. The ridiculous peasant Hugo Chavez promised Venezuela’s poor that he would take vengeance on the rich — “the squalid ones” — and give their stuff to the poor. Millions of poor people responded: YESSSSS!!! Beginning in 1998, and five… Read more »
Quit clowning around. I’ve done more deep studies on communism than you could ever imagine. This is gonna be a tough pill to swallow, but communism is almost always backed, financed, and supported by Wall Street. It’s a very effective tool for creating a favorable end state or preventing competition. Create problem, over retract, solution! Also, you can’t claim it’s ruled by a communist dictator and that the people voted for it! It’s a petro state, which gives it unique economic characteristics, and systemically important on the world stage. Here’s a quick crash course… First the price of oil crashed… Read more »
Wall street always votes for money. Socialism is free money to the politically connected which is stolen from the masses. Your statement implies that wall street supports communism or socialism which is false. They support any edge which makes them money. The current support for Dem’s in the US is based upon over regulation which limits competition and makes picking stock winners easier.
I’m saying it’s a tool of many that they employ to gain an edge.
“Your statement implies that wall street supports communism or socialism which is false.”
Oh really? Who else is responsible for eliminating trade barriers with communist China in the 80s and the destruction of the US worker base?
Quit up-voting your posts too. It looks really funny when you get orders of magnitude more attention than everyone else for your drivel that is easily refuted.
Word for the day “Job”. Get one of those and all those other problems have a way of resolving themselves. As far as safety, don’t you realize you’re in Chicago, no one is safe here.
Tourists: arrive in Chicago, stay at booked hotel, eat at restaurants, visit admission-charging tourist sites, rely on cabs and uber, all on their own tab, at their own out-of-pocket cost. Newly-arrived migrant “asylum seekers”: arrive in Chicago, uninvited, unexpected, unfunded, with no personal responsibility for providing for their permanent-stay “visit”, receive free housing, food, entertainment, and transport, plus free medical care and public school enrollment for children, at zero cost, then COMPLAIN about said free stuff. News media happily posts these articles, without addressing fundamental issue: we taxpayers didn’t invite these illegal “migrants” to Chicago, our politicians did, but taxpayers… Read more »
You should see the ‘free’ Smartphones Biden gives them – don’t even need a ‘family plan’
Just move in with BJ…
Maybe the solution is to GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM! 😠😠😠😠😠
Chicago Democrats are already teaching these asylum fraudsters how to be entitled social parasites that sponge off the taxpayers
Hilarious, Sigcho-Lopez is now one of the establishment bad guys
She feels oppressed? I feel oppressed because Citadel won’t give me a corner office. This is complete insanity.
Who made the promise?
Yankees need jobs and homes too! We don’t need no stinkin gringos and their welfare needs foisted on us workers.
Who let them in to IL? They can look after them.