Illinois taxpayers foot the bill for a migrant crisis exacerbated by executive overreach and legislative dereliction.
A child waits in line for dinner with other migrants after attending a religious service outside a shelter on the Lower West Side on March 4, 2024, in Chicago. Several religious groups organized the event. by bus or airplane from Texas since Aug. 31, 2022. As of Wednesday, 10,845 migrants were still living in shelters.
Let’s cut to the chase. The migrant crisis in Illinois is a problem of our own making. Chicago, designated a sanctuary city since 1985, further solidified its status in 2021 by prohibiting law enforcement from working with immigration officers. The governor’s 18th emergency disaster proclamation, issued on Jan. 5,
Pritzker’s emergency measures amount to the unilateral consolidation of legislative power in the executive branch. They suspend ordinary purchasing rules and grant-making protocols, encompassing the entire state as a disaster area and effectively usurping normal state operations under the appearance of crisis management.
Chicago, purportedly a progressive bastion, remains under the iron grip of mayoral authority, with the City Council failing to assert its oversight role. The mayor’s opaque decision-making process, exemplified by the handling of the migrant crisis, underscores a pattern of poor governance, characterized by fiscal irresponsibility and lack of transparency.
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