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Denver Mayor: ‘We Want to Be a Welcoming City’ for Migrants, That ‘Requires Shared Sacrifice’
Breitbart ^ | 04/12/2024 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 04/12/2024 5:59:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During a portion of an interview with CNBC that was recorded in February and aired on Thursday’s “Cities of Success,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston responded to a question on if the city was too open to migrants and too generous by stating that “it’s a balance. We want to be a welcoming city” but doing that without federal help “requires shared sacrifice, it requires compromise. So, we are both making cuts to city budgets to meet this financial need, and we are making cuts to the amount of services we can provide to the migrants that arrive and to the number of folks that we can serve.”

Johnston said that the number of migrants that came to the city was “much higher than what we thought. I will say, what we’re very proud of is, like other problems, we’ve taken this on, we’ve figured out an entrepreneurial approach, and we’ve figured out a path to solve it. Of the 40,000 migrants who have arrived in this city, as of tonight, I have a regular count, we have about 40 to 45 migrants total that are unsheltered tonight. That means 99.9% of those 40,000 have come through, gotten connected to services, housing, work, and made it successfully. So, we figured out how to run this machine, how to welcome people, get them connected to legal clinics, provide them wrap-around resources. To do that well just requires resources, and so, our challenge is, we can do it well with federal help, we can do it well with more work authorization, we can do it well with a coordinated plan for entry. Without any of those three, the work becomes tougher. But we’ve now doubled down, assuming there’s no federal help coming, and we’re going to figure it out on our own.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; arrestmikejohnston; balance; colorado; denver; illegalimmigration; immigration; invasion; liberallife; mayor; migrants; mikejohnston; sacrifice; sancturarycity; treason; welcomingcity
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To: Lurker

so the Mayor will fill his House/Houses with Illegals , that’s nice of him


41 posted on 04/12/2024 6:42:37 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Democrat = party of treason; Gay State Conservative
Both terms are accurate, but I prefer Crimigrants.
42 posted on 04/12/2024 6:45:14 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: butlerweave

Uh, well, . . . he is willing for you to make a sacrifice.


43 posted on 04/12/2024 6:45:30 AM PDT by anton
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To: Lurker

Well isn’t that special. Sounds like the church of Christ without Christ.


44 posted on 04/12/2024 6:47:19 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Lurker

I have no problem letting migrants live throughout the country.

Except these people aren’t migrants. These are “illegal migrants” or “undocumented migrants”, if you want to polish their turd.

These “undocumented migrants” shouldn’t be let loose about the country because they’re breaking the law just by crossing the border.


45 posted on 04/12/2024 6:48:23 AM PDT by WarANDPiece
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To: sevlex

“Shared sacrifice” is what you call it when you’re all sitting and waiting for your turn on the gallows.


46 posted on 04/12/2024 6:48:55 AM PDT by WarANDPiece
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

DEMOCRATS DESTROY EVERYTHING they TOUCH!


47 posted on 04/12/2024 6:51:50 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lurker

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston like all liberals makes cover story for their lunatic plans that fail that places Americans at risk and increased crimes.


48 posted on 04/12/2024 6:52:14 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Why?

And who’s “we”?

What do Americans or Denverites get out of being a “welcoming city”?

Was the flood of illegals something ordinary people wanted or something that was forced on them?


49 posted on 04/12/2024 6:54:55 AM PDT by x
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To: Lurker

In other words, we’re bringing in your replacements and we’re going to take your money to guarantee a nice life for the new arrivals.


50 posted on 04/12/2024 6:58:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: Lurker

I wonder how many illegals the mayor has living in his basement?


51 posted on 04/12/2024 7:00:44 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You’re too kind. The Mayor’s salary is $206,000.


52 posted on 04/12/2024 7:00:44 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Gay State Conservative

denver mayor salary is $206,000 ....


53 posted on 04/12/2024 7:04:04 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Agreed. The places of my youth, wonderful small towns and cities in Northern California, are shells of their former selves. This is still home, but it’s disheartening. Particularly when I just paid nearly $12,000 in income taxes to a pack of lunatics in Sacramento who continue to destroy a once beautiful and prosperous state, and who consider traditional white men (like me) their enemy. We once had the best schools, free colleges, a thriving economy, and were the envy of the world. No more. Our schools are near the worst in the nation, the middle class has been hollowed out, and our state facilities/parks are decrepit. On the other hand, we do provide housing, food, and full medical care for wetbacks, including ‘gender affirming’ surgery....


54 posted on 04/12/2024 7:04:44 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Lurker

It seems those who want to save democracy the most can’t be bothered to have open discussion of their most radical plans and give not two figs about popular support for them.


55 posted on 04/12/2024 7:08:22 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Lurker

Define “we” mayor.


56 posted on 04/12/2024 7:14:06 AM PDT by janesore (DooDan, I ain't so superman....)
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To: Lurker

Shared sacrifice? Someone should go to the next city council meeting and propose cutting the salaries of the mayor and city councilmen in half and see how well that idea is received.


57 posted on 04/12/2024 7:14:50 AM PDT by Salohcin
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To: Lurker

What are the illegal aliens sacrificing?


58 posted on 04/12/2024 7:15:53 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Gay State Conservative

**Yes,$300K a year is middle class in San Francisco and New York. But it sure as hell ain’t in Kansas City,Greensboro or Moline,Illinois.**

Lol. For this farm boy, what was in Moline, IL, was better than striking gold. 46 years ago last month, my Moline girlfriend said ‘yes’ to my marriage proposal!

Combined, we’ve never grossed a $100k, but have been quite happy.


59 posted on 04/12/2024 7:19:27 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: MrRelevant

“What are the illegal aliens sacrificing?”

Putting up with the idiocy of the leftist “do-gooders” that betray their own nation?


60 posted on 04/12/2024 7:21:03 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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