Last month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said in an interview that “everything’s on the table” when it comes to handling the city’s budget and the illegal immigration crisis. This is due to the fact that thousands of illegals have moved to the Big Apple after being admitted to the U.S. through the southern border.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams on budget cuts as the city grapples with a migrant crisis: "What we're going to have to do is extremely painful." pic.twitter.com/IXsSbJUcOA
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Reportedly, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, a Democrat, said this week that the city needs to prepare to draw up plans for cuts in the 2024 budget to compensate for the $180 million in spending on illegal immigrants (via Fox News):
He said he has asked agency heads to begin to draw up plans for the cuts in the 2024 budget. He also said that the 4,800 migrants in shelters means that it does not have space to house anyone else at the moment.
"We have a lot of suboptimal options which are either offering everyone onward travel to another location or trying to hope they have friends or family they can stay with here, but we think we are at a very different tipping point than we’ve seen any way up to this moment," he said on Tuesday.
Johnston is one of a number of mayors who have appealed for more federal aid, asking for over $5 billion. The Biden administration is currently seeking around $1.5 million from Congress as part of the border section of its supplemental funding request.
"I have called the White House," Johnston said on "America’s Newsroom" last week. "We've told them we need more federal aid. That's why there's dollars in that supplemental budget to do that."
Fox noted that the city may slash budgets up to 15 percent due to the migrant crisis.
Denver has previously confirmed considerable costs in handling the crisis, including $4.5 million for transporting around 12,000 migrants out of state to alternative destinations.
This month, Townhall reported how a legal immigrant in Denver, Colorado told reporters that illegal immigrant camps in town have hurt her business and her community. In an interview with the Denver Gazette, the woman, Tip Cordova, said “I want to cry right now,” and “I can’t take it anymore.”
Cordova’s a gas station, is located “a few steps” from a camp with more than 70 tents to house illegal immigrants. As a result, business is down 50 percent.
“What’s going on right now is not a solution,” her son, Sam Plumsukon, told the outlet.
In addition, Townhall covered how an illegal immigrant in Colorado who has been arrested multiple times, as well as deported, was arrested again after he allegedly killed a mother and her son in a car crash.
