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Costs for Assisting Denver’s Overwhelming Indigent Migrants Could Reach $500 per Household, Report Reveals
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Costs for Assisting Denver’s Overwhelming Indigent Migrants Could Reach $500 per Household, Report Reveals

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM The financial burden to house, feed, and care for the thousands of indigent migrants arriving in Denver could amount to $500 per Denver household, according to a report from the Common Sense Institute. The report from the think tank highlights the growing apprehension regarding the city's ability to provide essential services for the influx of migrants. "If the Denver mayor's recent spending projections of $180 million hold true, the city will have exhausted a significant amount of its general funding by the end of 2024," the report states. "To date, spending has been covered by a combination of federal, state, and city funds, but it remains unclear how the projected 2024 amount will be financed." Furthermore, Denver's expenditures fail to fully ac...
Denver City Council to consider banning homeless camp sweeps in frigid weather
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Denver City Council to consider banning homeless camp sweeps in frigid weather

By Noah Festenstein | SOURCE: The Denver Gazette Denver buying the $88.5 million Denver Post building and a ban on sweeps of homeless encampments while temperatures are below 32 degrees top the agenda for the Denver City Council meeting on Tuesday. City offices are closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, delaying the council’s weekly Monday meeting.  Two of the items likely to be most talked about were tabled at the past two meetings. Council members two weeks ago voted to postpone the purchase of the Denver Post building, citing a need for more information about the purchase plan. The city is considering buying the building for $88.5 million. Denver needs more courtroom space by 2030, according to a 2020 courts master plan. READ FULL ARTICLE ON DENVERGAZETTE.COM
How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration
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How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration

By Rob Natelson, SOURCE: Independence Institute This essay was first published in the Jan. 8, 2024 Epoch Times. As unauthorized foreigners continue to flood across the Southern border, state officials continue to cast about for solutions. In normal times, the federal government would remedy the problem. But these are not normal times: The administration of President Joe Biden actually seems to be aiding the influx. State officials are hampered by a Supreme Court doctrine called “implied federal preemption.” The courts use this doctrine to void some state laws as contradicting federal statutes, even when the federal statutes do not explicitly override them. For example, the Arizona legislature adopted four measures to address illegal immigration. They were consist...
Suspect in DUI death of Colo mother and son was deported four times
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Suspect in DUI death of Colo mother and son was deported four times

SOURCE: Colorado Peak Politics As sanctuary cities plot to get billions more in taxpayer dollars to support illegal immigrants and expand services to migrants with questionable asylum claims, we are tragically reminded of the consequences of embracing lawless borders. Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas of El Salvador was deported four times before he got drunk and crashed into a vehicle killing a Broomfield mother and her 16-year-old son just before Christmas, The Daily Caller reported this week. PeakNation™ will recall that Menjivar-Alas was arrested and chargedwith homicide, DUI, and being a habitual traffic offender in the deaths of 47-year-old Melissa Powell and son Riordan. Now we learn he was last deported in 2015. His most recent alcohol-related incident in Boulder County ...