From Fox News: A police group says that law enforcement in Democratic-run cities and states across the country are “tired” of seeing local politicians supporting illegal immigrants rather than attempting to address key issues they’re dealing with, such as being understaffed and underfunded.
New York City alone was projected to spend more than $8.9 billion on illegal immigrants in 2024 and 2025, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute. According to the report, that funding went toward housing and support for illegal immigrants.
The Illinois Policy Institute estimated that the state has spent over $2.5 billion on care for illegal immigrants since 2021. Most of the costs came from healthcare, and costs vastly exceeded initial estimates, the institute claimed.
In 2022 and 2023 alone, Chicago spent around $255 million on costs for illegal immigrants such as housing, food, clothing and other care, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
One Chicago resident voicing her fury during a Chicago city council meeting in December 2024 told Mayor Brandon Johnson, “I got a great way what we can do with this budget. First, let’s start with cutting off illegals getting free everything, free housing, free schooling, free food. Yeah, let’s start with that. That’ll save us a lot of money.”
The report quotes National Police Association spokeswoman Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith as warning, “”They are tired of supporting illegal aliens and they are tired of hearing their politicians demonize law enforcement and ignore their needs. Our government system was not designed to be able to support millions of people from other countries, especially at a time when we have so many people who are citizens of the United States and are really in need of assistance.”
“It’s very frustrating for law enforcement,” Smith said. “There are so many financial resources spent toward illegal aliens, as well as all the political capital that is being spent right now in Chicago in support of illegal aliens.”
At a hearing in March, Rep.Virginia Foxx (R-NC) forced multiple sanctuary city mayors to reveal how much money their city has spent on illegal aliens.
🔥Virginia Foxx just forced every last mayor at the hearing to admit just how much they have spent on ILLEGAL aliens over just the last 4 years:
Chicago: $574.5 million
Denver: $79.0 million
New York City: $6.9 BILLIONBoston doesn’t ask whether someone has citizenship status,… pic.twitter.com/8ymGscycQH
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 5, 2025
During the same hearing, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) raked the mayors over the coals over the same issue:
Biden-Harris facilitated an illegal alien invasion of our country and Sanctuary Cities have only MADE IT WORSE.
❌NYC spent $6.9 BILLION on illegals
❌Denver spent $79 MILLION on illegals
❌Chicago spent 1% of its budget on illegals
❌Boston HAS NO IDEATO THE CITY OF BOSTON:… pic.twitter.com/FCTQbXBIvb
— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) March 5, 2025
In the December Chicago city council meeting, Chicago resident Vashon Tuncle, a conservative Black man, tore into Mayor Brandon Johnson with a vengeance over his spending of taxpayer funds for illegal aliens.
Chicago resident BLASTS Mayor Johnson and Democrats over wastefully spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on illegals.
“It’s looking like Democrats are bad with money.” pic.twitter.com/PstsgWCw4w
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 17, 2024
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