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Denver's [Crybaby...] mayor slams Texas governor over migrant buses after city sees new peak in shelters
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Dec 29, 2023, 4:05:56 PM12/29/23
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston joined the leaders of New York City and Chicago
Wednesday in lambasting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for continuing to send
busloads of migrants from the southern border to their cities.
The mayors said the chartered busing strategy was inhumane, reckless and
inefficient, and in a joint media call they detailed new time- and
location-based restrictions they will place on the buses’ arrivals in
their cities.
Johnston, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
also called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency.
That could allow the government to grant financial support and enact a
national resettlement strategy for asylum seekers, many of whom are
fleeing violence and desperation in Venezuela.
“We, at this point now, have had more migrant arrivals to our city than
any city in America per capita,” Johnston said. “And that is not because
there is a thoughtful or coordinated strategy to entry. It is because we
are the first big city north of El Paso — and the cheapest bus ticket and
the shortest trip for the (Texas) governor and others who are trying to
find a place to send people.”
Denver hit a new peak on Christmas Eve, when a city dashboard reported
4,268 migrants staying in shelters in the city more than a month into the
latest surge. That was up from 1,880 in mid-November. As of Wednesday
afternoon, the dashboard showed 4,063 migrants in shelters.
The first of several waves of migrants coming through Denver began
arriving late last year, and since then the city says it has served 34,461
people at a cost of more than $36 million.
Some migrants have been living outside in recent weeks after reaching the
city’s time limits for shelters. Denver is working to close one of its
largest migrant camps near Zuni Street and Speer Boulevard by Jan. 3.
Johnston spokeswoman Jordan Fuja said work was underway to connect people
with housing or transportation to other places, and the city plans to open
a congregate shelter in the next few days.
In Texas, Abbott has said his busing strategy is about both relieving
pressure on border cities as well as an attempt to make a political
statement about the country’s immigration policies by sending migrants to
“self-declared sanctuary cities,” as he put it in May. Last week, Abbott
sent the first plane ferrying migrants to Chicago.
Denver also has been a destination or pass-through city for asylum seekers
traveling on their own.
On Wednesday, New York City’s Adams said Abbott needs “to stop the games
and use of migrants as political pawns,” with Johnson of Chicago adding
that the governor was “circumventing law in order to prove a political
point.”
Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Denver’s mayor noted that the federal government has previously
coordinated refugee resettlement, including for Ukrainian and Afghan
refugees. Unlike with the southern border’s migrant crisis, the federal
government has provided significant support and resources as well as work
authorizations for those refugees.
The mayors said they were responding to a chaotic system as they go. They
plan new restrictions on bus arrivals that vary by city.
In Denver, Johnston said migrant buses must arrive between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. on weekdays at approved locations, so that they aren’t coming in the
middle of the night or dropping off families with children in freezing
temperatures. He planned to discuss other potential regulations with the
City Council.
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston joined the leaders of New York City and Chicago
Wednesday in lambasting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for continuing to send
busloads of migrants from the southern border to their cities.
The mayors said the chartered busing strategy was inhumane, reckless and
inefficient, and in a joint media call they detailed new time- and
location-based restrictions they will place on the buses’ arrivals in
their cities.
Johnston, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
also called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency.
That could allow the government to grant financial support and enact a
national resettlement strategy for asylum seekers, many of whom are
fleeing violence and desperation in Venezuela.
“We, at this point now, have had more migrant arrivals to our city than
any city in America per capita,” Johnston said. “And that is not because
there is a thoughtful or coordinated strategy to entry. It is because we
are the first big city north of El Paso — and the cheapest bus ticket and
the shortest trip for the (Texas) governor and others who are trying to
find a place to send people.”
Denver hit a new peak on Christmas Eve, when a city dashboard reported
4,268 migrants staying in shelters in the city more than a month into the
latest surge. That was up from 1,880 in mid-November. As of Wednesday
afternoon, the dashboard showed 4,063 migrants in shelters.
The first of several waves of migrants coming through Denver began
arriving late last year, and since then the city says it has served 34,461
people at a cost of more than $36 million.
Some migrants have been living outside in recent weeks after reaching the
city’s time limits for shelters. Denver is working to close one of its
largest migrant camps near Zuni Street and Speer Boulevard by Jan. 3.
Johnston spokeswoman Jordan Fuja said work was underway to connect people
with housing or transportation to other places, and the city plans to open
a congregate shelter in the next few days.
In Texas, Abbott has said his busing strategy is about both relieving
pressure on border cities as well as an attempt to make a political
statement about the country’s immigration policies by sending migrants to
“self-declared sanctuary cities,” as he put it in May. Last week, Abbott
sent the first plane ferrying migrants to Chicago.
Denver also has been a destination or pass-through city for asylum seekers
traveling on their own.
On Wednesday, New York City’s Adams said Abbott needs “to stop the games
and use of migrants as political pawns,” with Johnson of Chicago adding
that the governor was “circumventing law in order to prove a political
point.”
Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Denver’s mayor noted that the federal government has previously
coordinated refugee resettlement, including for Ukrainian and Afghan
refugees. Unlike with the southern border’s migrant crisis, the federal
government has provided significant support and resources as well as work
authorizations for those refugees.
The mayors said they were responding to a chaotic system as they go. They
plan new restrictions on bus arrivals that vary by city.
In Denver, Johnston said migrant buses must arrive between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. on weekdays at approved locations, so that they aren’t coming in the
middle of the night or dropping off families with children in freezing
temperatures. He planned to discuss other potential regulations with the
City Council.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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