The border crisis highlights the fact that Chicago is a failing city
Zachary Faria
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Chicago is facing a budget shortfall of $538 million next year. Around $200 million of that is a result of the immigration crisis that the city has struggled to deal with, exposing just how pathetic Chicago has become under almost a century of Democratic leadership.
Chicago is floundering, with 40 illegal immigrants flying into the city every day while more arrive by bus. By the end of the year, the city will likely have spent over $300 million on dealing with the migrant crisis, with Mayor Brandon Johnson planning to move more than 2,000 illegal immigrants into giant tent cities that will cost $5 million every month.
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For perspective, Chicago has received 13,000 illegal immigrants since Texas and others began busing them to the Windy City and other Democrat-run “sanctuary cities.” On Tuesday alone, Border Patrol apprehended 7,400 illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. The Tucson, Arizona, sector of the border saw 2,000 illegal crossings for three consecutive days earlier this week. Both numbers are about half of what Chicago has seen over a period of several months, and those border communities have reached those numbers in just days.
The fact that Chicago, the fourth-wealthiest city in the U.S., can’t handle a few thousand illegal immigrants is both a damning indictment of the Biden administration and Chicago’s Democratic leadership. The border crisis has been well-documented, as liberal sanctuary cities like Chicago whine about being burdened with a fraction of the illegal immigrants for a fraction of the time as border communities have dealt with.
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But Chicago is also a failing city thanks to the Democratic leadership of Johnson and his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot. Over the last five years, Chicago has lost a net total of at least 294,000 people, with only New York City and San Francisco seeing worse declines. The state of Illinois, also failing at the hands of Democratic leadership, lost 105,000 residents in 2020, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service, taking with them some $10.6 billion in income.
The issue is not just that Chicago Democrats encouraged illegal immigration by claiming to be a sanctuary city and then cried foul when being forced to deal with the immigration crisis. It is that Chicago is failing at everything, including handling a fraction of the border crisis, because it is run by incompetent Democrats and has been since 1931. A budget shortfall of more than half a billion dollars is the natural result of that.