Denver area leaders sent a love to foreigners looking to relocate to the liberal mountain city in February 2018 and a message to any elected officials looking to quit them:
Draped on Denver’s City and County building was a large, blue banner:” Denver ❤ ️ Immigrants”.
Then-metropolitan Michael Hancock event , who claimed it was a “love” to allow newcomers understand Denver is” an open and welcoming area” But,  , six years later, Denver people are facing an uphill struggle of implications from the progressive leaders ‘ actions. Amid a crisis that has seen more than 40, 000 migrants arrive in the area since late 2022, Denver officials have a fresh information: If you stay in Denver, you will incur.
In a city house in late March, a representative with the company of new governor Mike Johnston declared,” The opportunities are over,” according to a movie obtained by a regional television station. ” New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more”.
In Denver District Court on Monday, Douglas County sued the state of Colorado and its Democrat government Jared Polis over the problem.
The lawsuit challenges the validity of two Colorado-based state laws: a 2019 law that made it illegal for local authorities to cooperate with federal immigration officers in civil situations, and a 2023 law that forbids local governments from entering or renewing detention partnerships with ICE and from funding privately owned or operated immigration detention facilities.
The country is in a turmoil of emigration. According to the complaint,” the society, the state, and local institutions must work together and share resources to address this crisis” and that the laws cited in the lawsuit “prohibit the necessary assistance and produce dangerous circumstances for the State and migrants”
Teal contends that” the state does n’t have the inherent authority to limit the ability of a local jurisdiction to work with any agency, regardless be it local, state, or federal”. By doing so, he said,” the state is inhibiting the local communities, the local jurisdictions from providing for the safety” of their residents.
” We are seeing what is happening in Denver,” said Douglas County. It is not safe”, Douglas County commissioner Lora Thomas, a former state trooper, said during a Monday morning press conference announcing the lawsuit.
According to Douglas commissioner Abe Laydon, the lawsuit “is about putting America first and Coloradans first.” He said that he recognizes” the plight of those seeking refuge and asylum here in the United States,” but that” Douglas County is a place where quality of life comes first.”
National Review reports on the mile- high city’s crisis:
In January, the city was housing and feeding almost 5, 000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, in hotel shelters. Other immigrants slept in tents on sidewalks and in parking lots, giving a fresh dimension to Denver’s ongoing struggles with poverty and squalid homeless camps.
Migrants with water bottles and squeegees head into traffic at intersections throughout Denver in an effort to make a few bucks washing their drivers ‘ windshields.
To address a migrant- driven financial crunch, the city is now cutting hours at local rec centers, slashing park programming, and freezing hiring in some departments. The city has decided against planting flowers in some of its parks and medians this spring in an effort to save some money.
The migrant crisis has cost the Denver region at least$ 170 million, according to a conservative estimate by Colorado’s Common Sense Institute, which looked at city spending as well as school and hospital costs, and is almost surely an undercount.
