Denver is ‘hitting a breaking point’ in handling migrant influx, says Mayor Johnston
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- As the U.S. processes a record number of migrants at the southern border, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston discusses how he and other big city mayors are handling the crisis.
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#Denver #Migrants #Border
I live in Denver and people who live here are barely surviving. What a joke.
Democrat utopia... you should be glad if you voted for the Democrats.
Yep....I feel bad for Denverites who are being over run by ppl that arrived illegally, but who expect to have all their needs met. Meanwhile many of Denver's own citizens are barely surviving. However, I note that every Mayor since 1963 has been a Democrat, & the citizens of Denver are now paying for choosing that brand of thinking & governing.
I moved 7 years ago because I seen the downfall coming. Best decision I've ever made.
I left Denver last year because of the insane cost of living and the laws. They give millions in funding to homeless and “human rights” organizations and abortion (murder factories). They don’t address the insane cost of living and lack of reasonable single family homes. Denver takes in more and more extreme political positions by allowing anyone to live there. It has turned a majority red state into a cesspool of progressive policies that allow the fungus to grow in denver and boulder.
Why in the primary did y’all vote democrats? WHY?
The entire country has hit the breaking point, not just Denver !!
Thank to biden, mayokas is a starting point!
If you voted for Biden you got what you wanted.Trump wanted to build a wall.Please!Vote red!TRUMP!
Why not send them to Delaware where Joe Biden is from? Let's see how Biden will handle.
Nah. Not The entire country has hit the breaking point. /
Just say, “ Illegal Immigrant “ once. Just once.
😂😂😂😂😂 JUST ONCE 😂😂😂
Let's be real, you'd just find something else to whine about 😂
@@electron6825 With this failure of an administration, There are endless things to "Whine" about.
@@joeyharper4976 every administration since you've been alive has had "endless" things to whine about but you only focus on the other team because you are a partisan hack.
Illegal alien.
He wants to hand out work permits?? That'll just attract more people.
And lower labor costs for multinational corporations
Big Business Loves Cheap Labor. 😅
That’s the democrats plan
That's the idea....
Of course. The "folks" he refers to are non-American citizens. And what are these people going to do? Are there no unemployed American citizens?
This is insane !!! Denver is going down the tubes. Vote these people out!!
Vote the democrats OUT 🗣️
Been trying too. To many Californians here now still voting their old ways.
Is not the elected officials there it's TEXAZ 🌵 and it has gone on since the. 60's worse since 2011. Just ain't start when the 🎥 roll 🍿🎥
Nope -- Colorado is deep blue now.
Biden got to go!!
American citizens have to undergo 7-10 year background checks for many jobs. How do you background check undocumented people. Two tier system in every sense.
Same to get apt, background check, good credit, check stub, making twice amount of rent amount, etc, no pets, no kids,etc..They. bypass all requirements?. But we must comply?!❗❗
Picture stadiums filled with 30,000 illegals at a time getting their citizenship and voting card. The ballot harvesting days are over.
Undocumented workers get deported before payday, and get paid in cash to avoid taxes if they do get paid.
@@AbsolvedinHim Politicians competing for votes. Looking for new demographics to pander to. Democrats look really desperate.
You need a background check to work at most any retail job in the country, you need a background check to rent anywhere, you need ID to travel on a bus or a plane or a train, you need a vaccine card to go to a concert or sport event, you need ID to buy tobacco or alcohol. But these people can have all of that and don't need to do anything a citizen has to do. Two tiered isn't the right term, the american government is very actively replacing it's people with a group they can more easily control and manipulate.
Denver will be the garbage dump of Venezuela.
You are wrong, Denver will come out on top of all this and be the better for it. There are always unintended consequences in everything.
@@bobbullethalfgullible much??
@@donguess4332 , not really. I am just betting the odds. The more people that are against something working the more it will work.
You mean the US.....
This is warfare against the citizens of the USA. We are currently a captured country ocupied by foreign owned puppet politicians.
There are 32,000 houseless Americans in Denver. 60% are employed, which demonstrates employment is not a guarantee to housing. Houseless Veterans are being denied housing assistance by Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. First Nations are being ignored. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston berates us, yet accommodates any number of migrants arriving in Denver.
what would you do?
@@robc9108First, I would house houseless Americans in Denver. I would redirect the 180 million dollars Johnson has allocated for migrants to housing houseless Americans in Denver. I would request funds from HUD's Housing Repository (they have a homeless Repository from which most funding is produced to maintain homelessness). I would condemn as many buildings and land in Denver as possible that sit derelict. I would start retro-fitting the vacant commercial properties into residential units. I would request more funding from CDOT, The United States Interior, and RTD. I would revoke Denver as a sanctuary city. The funding for homeless operators, Denver Rescue Mission, Saint Francis, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, etcetera, would end freeing more funds for housing and addressing shortages in Healthcare professionals and inadequate wages. I would introduce a Bond Initiative and instill Community Land Trusts. This is not an exhaustive list, but it is where I would start.
@@robc9108when Trump wins they will all be deported GAME OVER.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I voted TRUMP
4500 and they’re at capacity… Imagine all the border cities that have been dealing with this for years
They aren't even cities, they are border TOWNS, which is even worse... they don't have the resources like those big cities.
Remember they said there was no crisis and a border wall racist
NYC gets 4500 a day!
@@smrk2452Good.
@@smrk2452 not true
Wait, so companies are calling you to hire migrants??? Why aren't they calling you to hire U.S. citizens or even homeless people?? Doesn't make sense, so stop the cap Mike Johnston
The more handouts you give, the more migrants you will attract.
We need to turn our state RED! Fixed!
What kind of work can you get with no skills and no English? America needs skilled people who can move this country forward!
You don't have to know how to speak English to pick crops and dig ditches like a lot of these workers do. Those jobs have to be done too.
The current President did it!!🎉
@@darksoul479There’s thousands of workers in Denver that would love to do those jobs for a fair wage but won’t be hired if you bring in all these illegal workers
Their best skill- acceptance of abuse and low pay .
@@darksoul479They most likely earn enough to be self sufficient. Also, they are paid cash. Hard to follow the paper trail.
Mexican migrants have asked for work permit nearly 30 years... but these Venezuelans in Denver "deserve permits"? why?
Has to do with no extradiction policy with Venezuela. They cannot be deported there. But all migrants should be able to work. Better than the USA-born bums out there that aren't interested in working.
Crazy, like pure racist
Youre right, deport them all
Nobody that is illegal should get anything. Taxpayers are sick of being burdened.
no human is illegal... Mexicans are asking for work permit.. not for a hand out@@phillygirl52jax44
Stop paying taxes until they leave
Absolutely 💯
people are always saying that, and it sounds fine and dandy, but try going to your payroll department at work and get them to stop withholding taxes from your check.
@@electricman523 it's easy
Why do they need work authorization permits for illegal immigrants? As an international student to US, getting the permit is unimaginably difficult even though I'm legally here. Then, the government wants to give illegal immigrants the one I want? I hope there will be something very logical and reasonable to understand
It's all about sociopolitics. This is one of several key extremist positions on which clout, cash, media support, and votes depend for many liberal candidates. They hitched their horse to these issues in decades past, and have had to keep moving in steps and leaps toward the extreme to stay with the pack. Now that so much of their own voting base is turning against them they have to find ways to effectively make portions of these extreme positions permanent or sufficiently semi-permanent in order to shift the onus to the federal government, and to make it that much harder for anyone else to roll back their policies and changes.
It’s all about votes for the 💙 otherwise Democrats could careless about immigrants
@@theuhhhway3630how so. You dont use work authorization to vote. What the hack are you smoking
This guy is not on the right side of this issue
@@DzagoChatsama don’t drink don’t smoke….. it doesn’t take rocket science to realize when this border crisis happened.. The Second Joe Biden stepped foot into the White House.. like I said not because the democrats care about them but because they want to use them for their vote… they are nothing but pawns to them… and you as well….
I will vote you out.
Absolutely
Take them to your home mayor
Why should I as a tax payer from another state help fund that states decision to take on a debt they cant afford? You cant afford it nor can we. The jobs they can get does not pay enough for the cost of living so who covers the difference?
Taxpayers cover the difference. Awful governance.
Needing job is not a reason to get asylum
That mayor said it, corporations just want cheap labor thats all.
What about all the people who are citizens that live on the streets?
They’ve had their chance
Biden don’t care
They get to watch illegals stay in comfy hotels and get free healthcare while they sleep on the pavement outside because everyone else on this rock matters way more than Americans! Crazy
They're old news. Vote for trump and real Republicans.
Wanting to work isnt a valid asylum seekers
Close the border 👀💁🏼🚬
They broke the law. I wouldn't want to do business with them
Make room for millions more coming in illegally.
Dudes more worried about helping illegals than he is helping his own people and community.
As long as the US has an Old Weak President, Mexico& other Countries will take Advantage
Money won't solve this,and shame on the mayor.Illegal immigrants that have been here for thirty plus years can't get working documents. THEY getting pretttttty upset....
Only 9 percent of migrants in Chicago have applied for work. Only 1 % of them ended up finalizing the process.
Really 😂😂😂 but work permits was the answer 😂😂😂 clowns
@@ChrisJones-rm7uuI know right 🙄
They don't want work. They'd rather have handouts.
Research the Denver mayors background/upbringing/childhood/education. It's pretty much the same template a lot of politicians (local, state, fed) have. Spoiled child, mom and dad cultivated connections, academic thought bubble, cloistered urban yuppie, little to no hardships growing up, etc. Dude is your standard "looks good on paper" politician, but dig a little deeper you can see he has little to no experience out in the world "where the rubber meets the road" - so to speak.
Academic thought bubble. That is a great phrase.
You hit the nail on the head.
RINO
@@MrDavidrex RINO? That's so stupid. He's a Democrat, & all the previous Mayors since 1963 have been Democrats. Democrats declared Denver a Sanctuary City & has been in large part, the reason this problem exists. The voters of Denver have what they voted for...I hope they also open their own homes to house these desperate ppl....live what you say you believe in.
Well-said
Biden’s america 😂
No problem, Joey's got it all under control, just had to go to the island to setup an offshore account, be back soon. Joey realizes that a lot of taxpayer's have a garage they can house an illegal family in, or maybe an attic. The taxpayer's are doing so well they can even take care of the medical, food,education.... whatever is needed, and Joey's got your backs. Joey's here for you, right after he gets back from another vacation. No worries, you know, come on man.
But not in any Democrat estates, and Joe's garage is currently occupied with illegally held Classified Documents.
Hahaha 😝
I feel bad for the people that didn't vote for Biden. It means having to suffer for someone else's poor choice.
I'm one of those people. If we keep allowing people to flood over our border we will all be sorry
Remember when they said there was no crisis and a border wall was racist? How about now?
As a Californian I didn't vote for communism but we live under a dictatorship of Gavin Newsom that takes all our money and gives them to illegals and woke causes while homeless citizens cannot get any help.
Democrats are just using the illegals for VOTES otherwise they could care less about them…..it’s a corrupt political move by the democrats just like everything else they do is corrupt
How many terrorists have already made the journey
The entire country is at a breaking point.....
Wait a minute, I thought they invited them. Did they not have a plan to protect legal residents when they issued the invitation? Will legal residents have to pay higher taxes to deal with the natural consequences of the invitation?
It was an easy virtue signal, because they didn't think that it would ACTUALLY happen. Now that it has happened, they're scrambling to backtrack and say "We're a sanctuary city in spirit... not literally!"
I had to leave Colorado 5 years ago because of the taxes. My home value went from 250k to 900k from 2013-2019. You can be working full time two jobs and still because of taxes not be able to live there. The taxes have destroyed Colorado.
Invite who? If they are a sanctuary city, they should be accepting asylees not migrants.
@@matth9254 Yes all levels of taxes will rise as a direct result of the invasion. I expect this to be the case throughout the USA. CA has gone so far that I warned a city council in the first quarter of 2023 that the rich residents whose donations above taxes (over $350K to one public elementary school during the worst year of the Great Recession) would move taking all of their money if a matter passed. Shortly after, the council unanimously approved the matter for revenue, and the affluent began moving out of state sighting that vote as the final straw. Many more who planed to live their entire life here are thinking they will soon be taxed out. By June of 2023, the city's fiscal year end, the council was surprised to see the tax revenue was much lower than they budgeted and actually expected. The government is simultaneously cutting budgets that fill societal basic needs while the invaders are overwhelming all services. Some elected official has proposed paying illegals who never worked a day in America or paid into it, social security. The politicians don't take care of the legal residents who have paid into that program their entire lives.
man you need some compassion. i work i pay i feel you but they have nothing. i say find work for these people work with large buisnesses who need people and cant find people get the federal government to allow them to work if you want a job find them one. spread love and hope not hate or fear be kind it will get better
Thank you Joe Biden and Trump actually had it stopped !!
You voted for it silly. Now deal with it.
Well, Colorado just went down the toilet. It definitely didn't use to be like this.
This is what happens when people vote blue no matter who
Sickening!!! 😡
Very
Too bad they put all their focus on Trump instead of what really matters.
Trump 2024
What jobs?
I feel for the migrants, but customers and employers are looking for workers who can speak the language.
Your jobs
Lots of jobs.
Low paying jobs are vacant.
If you live in Denver you will see the migrants are the ones doing most of the shopping in the stores and surprise working in them! Look around...the real reason for inflation is that a whole state worth of people are homeless.We can't come up with infrastructures this quickly nor professional workers.America may as well have been in a war trying to rebuild .
I just got assaulted by a homeless man in Boulder!!! This is out of control
I’m moving!!!
Don't vote lib
If you voted for Biden you get what you get , if not I’m sorry
@@ericbenefiel6075 I voted for trump!!!
@@jenofhearts then I apologize
Everyday is breaking point news. Hasn't it broke already?
So you have 200,000 jobs for these people and yore just waiting for work authorization huh?
I don'know why Colorado's government is just figuring this out... We citizens have been saying it for almost 4 years now. CLOSE THE FRIGGIN' BORDER!
Having a work authorization doesn't guarantee a job. Especially nowadays when you have to compete against so many other candidates and so many rounds of interviews. There's a lot of laid off/unemployed Americans who are at least high school graduates. Where's the streamlined work pipeline for Americans to find work??? THIS DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. No one sees a red flag about an American company calling the mayor saying "I want to hire the migrants" but not saying "hey, where are those Americans without jobs? I want to hire them." That screams underpay and capitalism. I'm not even a politician and seem to be more aware of this broken system.
They can’t pay migrants less than the federal or state minimum wage. So maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about?
@@rolandthethompsongunner64There's always someone ready to be combative and dissect a statement in the comment section. Minimum wage doesn't get people too far nowadays. I DO know what I'm talking about. Either way it DOES NOT change the point of what I said. 😌
@@jahgirl8647Exactly. 🎯
If jobs and homes scare why import those to compete?
Work authorization, is a ploy so they can vote in 2024.
They should pay them to help clean up the city.
Texas dealt with this alone for years. Welcome to the party. Oh more are heading your way.
WORK AUTHORIZATION?!
🖕
It's what they voted for....enjoy!!!!
Stop letting people into this country with bogus asylum claims and require them to apply for asylum into the each country they enter.
Was born in Colorado but had to leave 5 years ago. The politicians (left) have literally ruined my state. My home in 2013 was 250,000k. Now that home is valued at 900k. They also valued themselves in Denver as a “sanctuary city” and “no person is illegal”. Now they’er complaining???? You got what you voted for Colorado!!
I moved 7 years ago and no regrets at all. Best decision I've ever made. I seen the downfall coming.
Send them 10.000 a day same that Texas gets
But let Texas keep the Federal funds they get for migrants.. Why?
I’d love to see that actually. People like this clown would have to see the consequences of their policies and cry at the results
That city is infamously expensive. If they do manage to find work, it'll still be 1 family per bedroom to barely scrape by to start with. That's not considering how many families there'll be needing housing eating up the cheaper apartments first.
They'll definitely have to spread out more to survive, but that outlook still looks very grim as we're long into a major housing crisis already.
Wrong. Our taxes will pay for them to live better than most legal residents as in CA over the past 3 decades or more. The overtaxed Americans who are not paid welfare while working live 5 people in 1 bedroom apartments...
They never talk about deport how about you take some in your house govt
Been here all my life. Moving very soon. Colorado is ruined
So a small Texas border town has to endure 2500 people coming into town every day but a large US city is at its breaking point from 4500? If Mike worked at SpaceX, Starship would have ended at iteration 1. Maybe ask the POTUS to secure the border.
his spokesperson sideshow bob gets on tv every day and says the border is secure. she wouldn't lie, would she?
Biden's not going to give you a dime!😅
The “solution” is not to encourage more illegal immigration, but rather to actually enforce our border.
Help the citizens of your city. What's wrong with you? This is dangerous.
So does the mayor work for the CEOS or the citIzens?
How do we know they are not criminals wanted in their home countries if they have no documentation at all?
So at what point do you say stop? 4500 is nothing. What about 45 thousand or 4.5 million. When do you reach your limitations?
The US State Department had offered a reward of $5 million for information on Hamas’s senior official in Lebanon Arouri’s whereabouts. SO, America HAS PLENTY of $$$$$$ to take care of more Democrat IMPORTED DEPENDENTS
But I was told that Martha's Vineyard isn't a border town and therefore has no capability to deal with this.
Oh wait, never mind. Denver is a border town.
Denver is only slightly closer to Mexico than it is to Canada. The closest Mexican city is Juarez which is 630 miles away.
@@atralis5134 And yet we're all expected to believe that Martha's Vineyard isn't a border town but Denver is.
I am a Denver native and downtown used to be a nice and pretty place...There are small parks and tall trees.....
Now days it is like a migrant camp...Many of the squatters are desperate and that spells trouble....Some
democratic politicians have dropped the ball and appear to ignore the reality here...Many, many politicians
have a God complex !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many of these migrants ride around on the light rail all day, as they cannot be ticketed for not having a fare. I have seen groups of 10-12+ shady looking male illegal immigrants popping up at the light rail stations as far out as Park Meadows and East Aurora.
Dude is a graduate of common core math. "200,000... the great majority of incoming traffic right now". Wow, the absolute ignorance or true delusion about the actual number of migrants among these cities is eyewatering.
Same with cities. Denver is the first large city going up I25. I think Albuquerque might qualify as a large city. But as a border state, I guess those don't count in states actually removed from the borders. This is the problem we have here surrounding immigration and why it's so out of control.
We need to save ourselves before we save the people of other countries. This mayor's party is responsible for the growing problem. Keep voting for them and the problem will just get worse.
There must be a protective constitutional clause to enact against this irresponsible president.
They need more migrants send them 600 million don’t ever stop sending send the from afar from the river to the sea as far as the eye can see 600 million
Time to Take the Country Back!
“Hey Mike!” “I heard you got some desperate cheap labor down there!” “Send them my way!”
So reality hits. Thanks to DeSantis and Abbott. In Florida whole communities don’t speak a word of English. I try to talk to them in my limited Spanish, but we just can’t work together as friendly as we try to be.
In Florida, they feel emboldened to speak Spanish. They have no desire to learn English. They just want money to send home.
there are areas of dallas that look more like tijuana than america.
Hialeah, Florida, near Miami, was on the national news as the city in the USA with the most people who can't speak English.😂
@@janicehuff1183 Cubans come for freedom and jobs not to change their culture!🤧
What did democrat politicians think would happen when you announce to the world that you are a sanctuary city while simultaneously letting millions of people come across border?
They thought they would get elected and they did. Denver was a great city, feel sorry for those that didn't vote for this.
No more money we don’t have, we are not an unlimited bank, vote these leaders out
No funding for Sanctuary cities should come from non-sanctuary taxpayers. You wanted this pay for them yourself
I have an idea, how about we enforce our immigration laws?
This is wild i cant belive as an immigrant that married a us citizen amd had to wait a year and a half for my green card and spend 8k for it people are just comming in illegally and this government is allowing it pretty crazy
It is not fair to you because you did it the legal and correct way!
That's the face of a man drowning in his failures but desperately trying to put a positive spin on it.
Now I know why I've been told by several residents to NOT move to Colorado....
So just growing shantytowns across the US then?
I wonder if the brilliant leftists of Colorado have learned something……..but I’m not optimistic.
Why do people keep voting these people in office?
No more money .U wanted them .
Denver is a big rich city. They would have never declared sanctuary city status if they didn't have enough resources for these migrants. Keep sending.
What did these Mayors think would happen with open Borders and millions of illegals. Your job is to protect the Citizens of your own Cities and State.
i'm baffled that some people continue to praise jo jo & kam'la as wonderful leaders that we can entrust our children's future upon without question.
No offense but the law is supposed to be held up by the president of the United States but whom is the man in charge
Obama
NO WORK AUTHORIZATIONS!!!!!!!
So this is about jobs NOT asylum! TRUMP 204!
Give me More money and I’ll give you a bigger Problem.
It sounds like a lot of BS!!
"the border is secure" (say the democrats) 😂😂
300 more people push you to your breaking point? Times are tough
Since when is "I want to work" a legit claim for asylum?
It does not matter it they hit the breaking point . More are on the way. Work permits will just allow them to compete with poor locals for low wage jobs. Many will work under the table as they always have, paying no taxes and working for less than current wages.
Thank you Denver for being a sanctuary city. It’s great to see your lead in re-making America.
they want to replace our labor force for cheap labor. this is insane.
A friend of mine has been hit in his car and truck twice in two months. Each time “I speak no Engliss..” no one talks about all the other costs the migrants are costing us all . They don’t have car insurance to say the least and are driving all around . So who pays for that? The hard working people already here.
Saw this Mayor really drunk at Denver Union Station once with security all around him. He won't have to face the implications of his woke policies.