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(NewsNation) — American taxpayers shelled retired much than $150 cardinal on immigrants successful the U.S. illegally successful 2023 alone, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) estimates.
DOGE, which is expected to go a national bureau successful Donald Trump's upcoming administration, said in a societal media posting the spending compares to projects specified arsenic gathering the Hoover Dam, backing World War I and constructing the atomic weaponry and accounted for 2% of the wide U.S. budget.
Newsweek reported that if accurate, the $150.7 cardinal spent connected amerciable migration would rival the $151 cardinal that the authorities spent successful 2023 to supply income information programs to subject veterans and their families successful 2023.
Meanwhile, sanctuary cities similar New York, Chicago, and Denver person besides paid millions and sometimes adjacent billions connected caller arrivals since 2022.
Data shows that New York City, which has provided shelter, food, and different services for 223,000 migrants since 2022, has paid $ 5.22 cardinal for the attraction of caller arrivals. Chicago, which has reported 51,643 caller arrivals that person been bused determination from the confederate borderline by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, has spent $574.5 million.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said that the metropolis would not “cower successful fear” to Washington and has remained committed to protecting migrants. However, Johnson precocious announced that the metropolis volition beryllium ending its New Arrivals Mission astatine the extremity of the year.
The metropolis volition statesman a One System Initiative successful January, successful which Chicago’s existing structure strategy for those experiencing homelessness volition beryllium combined with shelters that person been designated for caller arrivals. The metropolis is facing a fund shortfall of $1 billion, according to metropolis data.
Residents person criticized the first-term mayor, including immoderate who expressed choler with Johnson astatine a caller City Council meeting. One pistillate said the metropolis could statesman addressing its fiscal woes by stopping providing “illegals with everything.”
Denver officials study that the Mile High City, which has cared for 42,911 caller arrivals since 2022, has paid retired $356 million to supply services for immigrants bused determination from Texas.
Yet arsenic President-elect Donald Trump and his borderline czar Tom Homan call for wide deportations and person threatened to withhold national backing from sanctuary cities that bash not cooperate with national enforcement efforts, mayors successful those cities are refusing to backmost down.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said this week that helium is unfastened to deporting immigrants with transgression backgrounds, which Homan has said volition beryllium the superior absorption of wide deportation efforts. The city’s comptroller said that New York spent $1.47 cardinal connected asylum-seeker structure and services successful the fiscal twelvemonth that ended successful June 2023. Of those funds, lone $438 cardinal were reimbursed by the state.
The New York Post reported that successful fiscal twelvemonth 2024, New York committed $3.07 cardinal to migrant attraction and that the authorities would beryllium reimbursing $1.3 billion.
Despite the spending, however, Adams said that helium won’t let Homan to travel successful and bash what helium pleases. Adams said helium is unfastened to sitting down with Homan successful the coming weeks to sermon the administration’s plans for dealing with immigrants who “are harming our citizens.”
But dissimilar different progressives who are acrophobic to talk retired against amerciable migration retired of fearfulness of alleged "cancel culture," Adams distanced himself from that group.
“Well, cancel maine due to the fact that I’m going to support the radical of the city,” Adams told reporters this week. “And if you travel into this country, successful this city, and deliberation you’re going to harm guiltless New Yorkers and guiltless migrants and asylum-seekers, this is not the politician you privation to beryllium successful the metropolis under. “
