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A number of elected officials pledged their support for the coalition's policy platform, which includes calls for immigrant healthcare and more funding for community services. "We are way overdue in creating a system of migration rooted in compassion and in justice," said U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.
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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No one is denying the illegals their right to leave.
These people need to be deported immediately, and we’ll throw in Chuy for good measure. I’ll even drive the bus.
Dozens? How many two, four, one hundred? If dozens then, I am guessing less than 100 people, probably around fifty. I went to a youth indoor soccer match this weekend, dozens of people there, why CBS report about that?
Hey Chuy, when are you going to take an illegal migrant family into your home indefinitely?
Well the voters elected Garcia so we know where those individuals stand on the issue
Gosh, why isn’t an American flag in this picture?
LET THEM WORK FOR IT LIKE AMERICAN;S HAVE TO!!!!!!! WHO ARE THEY TO THINK THEY CAN HAVE EVERYTHING FREE AND AMERICAN;S SHOULD GIVE IT TO THEM……..I CALL BS!!!!!!
These people are just nuts.
AND THEY ARE HERE TO REPLACE US
And progressive / socialist/ liberal/Dem s like “Two-ey Face “ Garcia are greasing the rails to help them.
They’re here to displace very shooty inner city blacks from their crime ridden ghettos. Democrat cities don’t care who the residents are because they always vote Democrat. If blacks get displaced, they’re just going to move to the ‘burbs and vote Democrat there too. It’s a win-win for the Democrat Party.