Posted on 04/19/2024 1:54:46 AM PDT by Libloather
A housing advocacy group is slamming Denver’s new Asylum Seekers Program as “insufficient” and “a slap in the face,” even staging a protest to voice their disapproval — as the city spends tens of millions of dollars on migrant aid and slashes its emergency services budget to stave off insolvency in the wake of the influx.
The surge of new arrivals has thrown the Mile High City’s city’s budget into a tailspin. More than 40,000 migrants have found their way to Denver since December 2022 — more per capita than any other US city — at a total cost of around $68 million.
Of those funds, approximately $35 million was spent between December 2023 and March alone, according to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s office.
The program would be modified to provide “a long-term, sustainable response” that addresses what his office calls a “crisis,” the Democrat said in a statement Wednesday.
The program will provide six months of free housing, food assistance, workforce training and more to the approximately 1,000 migrants currently in the city’s shelter system as they await authorization to work, which due to federal asylum seeker law can take up to 180 days.
“After more than a year of facing this crisis together, Denver finally has a sustainable plan for treating our newcomers with dignity while avoiding the worst cuts to city services,” Johnston’s office said.
However, Denver’s emergency services weren’t completely spared from budget cuts to help pay for migrant aid.
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They voted for it, time for them to get it hard.
How about a kick in the ass back to where they came from.
Ungrateful gibsmedats...
Maybe they should consider going back to wherever they came from...
Yeah
F these spics and wogs
And as the illegals amass firearms and ammo ……
Gimme, gimme, gimme. It takes really stupid people to think the money supply is not limited, and don’t know that the governments money comes from people who work and pay taxes. Freeloaders go back to where you came from and fix your countries problems. We have enough problems without you.
Except when Federal dollars are used, then we are all hit.
The last time I had free rent and board I was living with my parents. But I left home and fended for myself just as all my ancestors have.
Embrace the suck
my dad motivated me to move out. a week after my eighteenth he told me I’d be paying rent, handed me the classifieds with jobs circled and cheap apartments. then he said my rent would be $10 a month more than the cheapest apartments he had circled. worked like a charm.
What Denver needs to do is get army surplus shelter halves like we used long ago, and give one each per illegal. They can buddy up and sleep under a full shelter until either A: they go home. Or B: they move to California. It would be cheaper…
Come November the voters in Denver will vote straight Democrat. Screw them, they deserve what they get.
When I was laid off, had no job, no where to live. No one gave me 6 months free housing.
I skimmed through the article. I thought they were talking about Californian ex-pats.
Biden opened the borders and the hell with American citizens!!
How much free rent were they getting in the communist paradise of Venezuela?
Denver INVADERS demand.
We haven’t heard a peep out of those people in Boston who brought illegals into their homes without laying eyes on them first much less background checks. Wonder how that’s working out, crickets.
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