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Julie Gamez, 60, a 16-year resident of Brighton Park, asked for the city to focus on public safety before taking on the migrant crisis. “We all need to have security here, and there is none. I’m out at 4 in the morning, and I don’t see a single patrol car. There have been robberies, there’s been beatings, shootings. I’m an immigrant, and I know that we need to help them, but there has to be another place for them to go. Let’s fix our problems first.”
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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This issue has nothing to do with race. It is a financial and safety issue. You can not inject 7.5M people into a social benefits system that is budgeted and planned to address the needs of the people of this country. None of the numbers work for social programs, public housing, medical coverage, public education, etc. You name it, this sort of influx of people puts us in the poor farm immediately. The safety issue is just that, we have no friggin idea who or what crossed the boarder into this country. No idea. If 1/10th or 1/100 of the… Read more »
WTTW trying to paint a racial spin on meeting with Asians vrs Latinos for their plummeting upper-income white libtard viewer/subscriber membership base? what a joke —“The crowd at the community meeting appeared to be starkly divided along racial lines, with many of the most vehement and emotional pleas to scrap the plan coming from Asian Chicagoans. Some Asian Chicagoans briefly chanted “send them back” as officials spoke about the plan. By contrast, many of those who spoke in Spanish or English said they were heartbroken that the city had no better option for the migrants than tents, which they said they feared would… Read more »
This is another popular argument amongst that’s being pushed by leftie lib press/ WBEZ-NPR types —that we welcomed Ukrainian immigrants with no problems , so if your not down with 100% getting behind the Venezuelan migrants then your somehow a right-wing MAGA racist white supremacist?
Here’s from an Axios piece today:
“There is a populace in the country of white supremacists who have no problem bringing in more Ukrainians, but do have problems bringing in more Central Americans, Venezuelans, Asians and Haitians — because they fear the demographic transformation of the country.”
(https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2023/10/25/migrants-refugees-ukraine-latino-mexico-border)
WTTW lies. End of story.
Even if the Springfield-n-DC Dems come through with lots of cash for Chicago, that still won’t fix the problem of residents being upset about Venezuelan migrants who crossed the border illegally getting money – from anywhere, for anything – before they do. Nor will state and Fed cash make people upset about having Venezuelan migrant tent camps near them any happier. Winter’s coming. Got one camp kinda-sorta planned that’ll eventually hold 2,000. If my math is about right, I calculate that leaves them about 10 camps short of getting people off of the sidewalks, and out of airport terminals and… Read more »
Or, tragically, found frozen solid on sidewalks, underpasses and alleys around Chicago. It’s going to be a complete humanitarian disaster. And predictably, our leaders blame will blame Texas for sending them here in the first place, ignoring that Biden has sent more here than Texas ever did.
Chaos is the policy.