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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: ChicagoConservative27; george76

Denver is almost dead. Stay away from any downtown area.


61 posted on 04/12/2024 7:37:25 AM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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To: dynachrome

Get Out Of Denver


62 posted on 04/12/2024 7:39:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Let the mayor "share" some "sacrifice". Reduce his salary to minimum wage and raise his property taxes to 25% of market value.
63 posted on 04/12/2024 7:39:40 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Lurker

OK, Mr. Mayor.

You first.


64 posted on 04/12/2024 8:17:36 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Lurker

Well, of course. These commie trash descend from Democrats — who are the only ones who owned slaves and pine for its return.

As to sharing with criminals, F@#$% you!


65 posted on 04/12/2024 8:20:29 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: dynachrome; MileHi; 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.)


66 posted on 04/12/2024 8:35:40 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Lurker

THE MAYOR & OTHERS are FORCING THEIR OPINIONS ON OTHER PEOPLE’S BUDGETS.


67 posted on 04/12/2024 8:42:41 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: wny

You could tell by watching Johnston’s campaign ad’s that he’s a woke fool who is going to take Denver even farther down the road to ruin. I’ve lived in Colorado for 37 years, and used to go to Denver from time to time. Now I avoid the place like the plague. It’s like a combination of Chicago and San Francisco.


68 posted on 04/12/2024 8:44:23 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: Lurker

Great, so 40,000 showed up and they fed and houses 99.9% of them. That great. Im sure another 40,000 wont show up next month...


69 posted on 04/12/2024 8:47:17 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: Lurker

I wonder how much my Hillary-voting lib sister and her husband are willing to sacrifice? They’re right there in Golden. Basically a burb of Denver.


70 posted on 04/12/2024 8:51:06 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Lurker

Yep. F that.


71 posted on 04/12/2024 9:03:26 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: sevlex

Just wait until you are required to hous a family by law or whatever Bolshevik method they think of in clear violation of quartering of federal criminals. Break out the guns, it’s coming.


72 posted on 04/12/2024 9:06:05 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: nonliberal
Sounds like they need a few thousand more.

I’m pretty sure our Governor Abbott will be happy to oblige.

73 posted on 04/12/2024 9:09:04 AM PDT by Allegra (🇺🇦 Ceviche 🇺🇦 Capeche? 🇺🇦 )
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To: george76

You want it, you got it, you KEEP it. Not my circus, not my monkeys; you feed them on your own.


74 posted on 04/12/2024 9:09:08 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: sevlex
He is backed by the 'Democratic Socialists of America'

......also was Obama's advisor

Here he's prepared a hotel room for this street person...


75 posted on 04/12/2024 9:50:25 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: nonliberal

BTTT


76 posted on 04/12/2024 9:55:12 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Gay State Conservative; All

I just looked it up. Mayor Salary for Denver is $205,990.58

He doesn’t have a ‘Husband’: Wife and three children

His wife is Assistant (they call it Deputy) District Attorney. She pulls in about $100,000 a year. So between them they enjoy the taxpayers largess of over $300.000 a year.


77 posted on 04/12/2024 10:08:09 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Gay State Conservative

A typical subdivision house in the Denver area is approaching a Mil so a $300K income is maybe slightly above middle class. but certainly not lavish by any stretch.


78 posted on 04/12/2024 10:12:11 AM PDT by airplaneguy
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

It’s more than that. I read the other day that we’re talking 750,000 illegals. I wasn’t 100% sure whether it was Colorado in general or just Denver.


79 posted on 04/12/2024 10:43:30 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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...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...

Yeah. You want to go through my pockets to solve it. Great plan.

80 posted on 04/12/2024 10:50:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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