For all its posturing about being a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants, Chicago is now kicking them to the curb on the orders of Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson, one of the very promoters of the Windy City’s sanctuary status.
Chicago evicted 34 illegal immigrants from city shelters on Sunday, the first of what will be several rolling evictions as Johnson has imposed a 60-day shelter limit. By the end of March, 250 illegal immigrants will have been evicted. That number will reach over 2,000 by the end of April.
This is the same Brandon Johnson who said this prior to being elected last year: “Chicago must lead with and live by the promise to be a sanctuary city. Longtime Chicagoans don’t have to lose for new arrivals to gain — there’s enough space at the table for all of us to sit and eat. Immigrants are welcome here.” He is now contradicting all of that, evicting illegal immigrants to make room in shelters because “the flow to the exit has not kept up.” Some people do have to lose for new arrivals to gain, and there is not enough space at the table for everyone.
To put it simply, Johnson is a fraud. There is no other way to describe his shift from sanctimonious posturing about how accepting Chicago is to kicking people out of shelters because not enough of them are leaving the city. This is what Chicago signed up for, and the increasing number of arrivals shouldn’t be unexpected. After all, “sanctuary cities” encourage illegal immigration by their very existence, so of course, more and more illegal immigrants are going to be arriving in the country and, by extension, arriving in Chicago.
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Johnson kicking illegal immigrants out of shelters flies against everything he and his Democratic-run “sanctuary city” have professed to support. This is the intolerance that Democrats project onto Republicans in the immigration debate but is actually being carried out by Johnson. At best, his new position is that all illegal immigrants should be welcome, but only if they stay out of Chicago or leave the city as soon as they arrive.
Either Johnson needs to renounce Chicago’s sanctuary status and admit he and his fellow Windy City Democrats were wrong to encourage more illegal immigration, or he needs to find more room for the illegal immigrants he is inviting to cross the border. As of now, he is choosing to be a hypocrite and, if Democratic rhetoric is to be believed, a “xenophobic” one at that.
