Denver spends more than $350 million on migrants

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-29 16:16:28 | Updated at 2024-11-29 18:31:07 2 hours ago

Denver spends more than $350 million on migrants
Center Square ^ | 11/29/2021 | Derek Draplin

Posted on 11/29/2024 8:01:44 AM PST by george76

Spending on migrants in Denver has ballooned to an estimated $356 million, an updated analysis by the Common Sense Institute says.

The estimate, which amounts to $7,900 per foreign national in the city, includes spending from the city, schools, and health care systems.

Denver has seen an influx of almost 43,000 migrants since 2022. The city has received significant federal funding for migrant response.

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from May, the city received federal funding for migrant response from the Head Start Program ($13 million), Federal Emergency Management Agency ($8.6 million), U.S. Department of Local Affairs ($1.5 million), and the National Board for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program ($909,000). Overall spending was estimated to be up to $340 million in May.

The analysis comes as Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and incoming Trump administration officials continue a public feud over the role of government and the handling of the ongoing migrant crisis.

Trump has taken aim at so-called sanctuary cities like Denver as part of his broader plan to crack down on illegal immigration and crime, and deport an untold number of criminal alienas in the U.S. illegally. In Colorado, state law bars state and local agencies from arresting individuals based on detainer requests from ICE.

Johnston said in an interview with Denverite last week that the Denver Police Department would be “stationed at the county line to keep [federal immigration agencies] out” and “you would have 50,000 Denverites there” protesting.

He walked back those comments in an interview last Friday with 9News.

"Would I have taken it back if I could? Yes, I probably wouldn't have used that image," the mayor told 9News. "That's the image I hope we can avoid. What I was trying to say is this is an outcome I hope we can avoid in this country. I think none of us want that."

Johnston added that he would join protests if he felt the Trump administration was violating rights and said he’s not afraid to go to jail.

Tom Homan, the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who Trump tapped to be the new border czar, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity this week: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing. He’s willing to go to jail; I’m willing to put him in jail.”

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican set to lead a subcommittee that will work with the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, also told Fox News on Sunday she plans to look into federal funding for sanctuary cities and states.

"I'd like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they're going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities," she said.

Data shows migrant arrivals to Denver have slowed to less than a dozen a day this month, CSI noted, down from a peak of over 5,000 one day in January.

“As the national conversation continues around migrants, Denver’s daily arrivals of asylum seekers from the southern border has slowed significantly, but taxpayer costs have continued,

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KEYWORDS: aliens; budget; colorado; denver; denvermayor; migrants; sanctuary; sanctuarycity; tda; trendearagua; welfare

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1 posted on 11/29/2024 8:01:44 AM PST by george76

To: MileHi; dynachrome; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

2 posted on 11/29/2024 8:02:45 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)

To: george76

Negotiation in process.

3 posted on 11/29/2024 8:03:31 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)

To: george76

the city received federal funding for migrant response

****

I’m no genius but I think I may see the problem.

4 posted on 11/29/2024 8:04:16 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)

To: george76

The wall is probably, literally, a thousand times cheaper.

To: george76

Colorado is running a contest to see if their taxpayers can pay more taxes than California. They love the new breed of “We’re Only Here To Party” miggies. They aren’t mowin’ lawns and scrubbing toilets anymore. They came for “a better life” and insist the more chips and salsa gringos are going to pay for it.

6 posted on 11/29/2024 8:06:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (In 2022, 613,383 Americans died by abortion. In the same year 19,651 died by firearms.)

To: Larry Lucido

I hope and expect that every major US city will suddenly find that it is no longer receiving a penny in federal aid for illegal aliens. They will suddenly say: “We need to get these people out of here.”

To: george76

This is why governments are for illegals..... $$$$$$$... Federal $$$$$, State $$$$, Local $$$$. Reasons to raise taxes, reason to hire more workers, reason to get campaign funding and reasons for more power! This is why governments do not want to solve any problem, the government benefits from an issue!

8 posted on 11/29/2024 8:07:49 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)

To: george76

[Denver spends more than $350 million on migrants]

KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT, DENVER! It’s working!!!

9 posted on 11/29/2024 8:08:36 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)

To: george76

Haven’t they been telling us that NO FEMA money was going towards illegals?

10 posted on 11/29/2024 8:08:54 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (If you're Black don't Vote Blue cuz then you'll just be Black and Blue)

To: ClearCase_guy

“The wall is probably, literally, a thousand times cheaper”

Wow. You’re way, way off.

11 posted on 11/29/2024 8:10:46 AM PST by Fuzz

To: george76

you would have 50,000 Denverites there” protesting.

Assign every one of those 50,000 an illegal alien family for their sponsorship.

End federal spending.

12 posted on 11/29/2024 8:12:32 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)

To: george76

As a negotiating ploy, Trump should tell sanctuary states/cities he’ll leave them alone and they can keep all their illegals.

Then turn off the funding and watch what happens.

13 posted on 11/29/2024 8:13:31 AM PST by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)

To: george76; All

If the Feds had any balls, they would have these governors and mayors ARRESTED.

14 posted on 11/29/2024 8:13:38 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)

To: ClearCase_guy

15 posted on 11/29/2024 8:14:22 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)

To: george76

Chump Change, Los Angeles County spends OVER $1 BILLION a MONTH servicing criminal Illegal Alien Invaders.

16 posted on 11/29/2024 8:15:36 AM PST by eyeamok

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