In an early sign that Chicago’s newly elected black lesbian mayor is going to do her best to make the city an even bigger shithole than it already is, Lori Lightfoot has taken a public stance that she would welcome any illegal immigrants that President Trump may desire to send.
Trump infuriated liberals when he came up with the genius idea to ease the burden on border facilities that have been swarmed by an army if invading migrants with his suggestion that he could authorize that illegals could be relocated to the sanctuary cities that are run by Democrats.
Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
….The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
According to Mayor-elect Lightfoot, she is prepared to roll out the red carpet and put an even more onerous burden on taxpayers who are already being shaken down as the city and state buckles under Democrat mismanagement of finances, ideology over common sense and corruption.
Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot says immigrants ‘welcome' to her city, despite Trump's remarks on sanctuary citieshttps://t.co/jzc85R9XVB pic.twitter.com/vy3d3JFfyB
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 13, 2019
Via Newsweek:
Lori Lightfoot hasn’t yet taken the oath to be Chicago’s next mayor, but she’s already embraced the fact the Windy City is a sanctuary city, and she said Chicago will open its arms to immigrants seeking asylum.
Last week Lightfoot became the first black, female and openly-gay mayor elected for Chicago. The 56-year-old former federal prosecutor said President Donald Trump’s threat to flood sanctuary cities with undocumented immigrants was “much ado about nothing,” and that Chicago will embrace asylum seekers, much like she said her predecessor, Rahm Emanuel, would do.
“We have people who are routinely coming to this city. We have a whole infrastructure that’s built up to make sure that their rights are protected while the city of Chicago has, under the current administration, provided funding for various groups to help support asylum seekers and other people that are going through the immigration court system. I expect it will continue, if not expand upon, those kinds of resources,” Lightfoot said during a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper on Friday.
Cooper asked Lightfoot if she had a problem with Trump using migrants as a “weapon against political opponents,” and Lightfoot said, “No.”
“Look, don’t get me wrong. What I’m saying is I don’t think we should take the bait every time the president puts out a provocative tweet. What I think we need to do is make sure that we are being very clear and speaking our values,” Lightfoot said. “We are a city that is a sanctuary city. We have immigrants from all over the world who call Chicago their home. They’ll continue to do that, and we’re going to continue to make sure that this is truly a welcoming community for those immigrants and we want them to come to the city of Chicago.”
This is what voters get for keep electing Democrats and now that they have determined that being black, female and gay is the top qualification for the mayorship let them reap the consequences of the leftward shift.
Rahm Emanuel was bad enough, now Chicago is going from the frying pan into the fire.
