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    Chicago, New York and Miami top choices for immigrants leaving Denver

    Chicago, New York and Miami top choices for immigrants leaving Denver



    Nicole C. Brambila, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
    Tue, January 17, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST




    Jan. 17—Denver spent nearly $500,000 in December on 1,900 Greyhound bus tickets to send immigrants to 35 states and Washington, D.C., documents obtained by The Gazette show.

    The majority of immigrants were bused to New York and Illinois.

    The costs do not include how much the city spent on busing immigrants to other states in January or state expenditures for its charter buses.

    Nearly 4,300 immigrants — mostly from South and Central America — have arrived in Denver seeking shelter since Dec. 9.

    City officials anticipate Denver will spend about $3 million to respond to the humanitarian crisis. Mayor Michael Hancock has said the crisis put a financial strain on the city.

    It has also strained relations with the Democratic mayors of New York City and Chicago, who have complained publicly about the transfers to their cities — which also have experienced an influx of immigrants.

    On Jan. 10, The Gazette requested a breakdown of the city's spending on the immigrant response. Denver's Joint Information Center provided the records Monday.

    Here is a breakdown of the costs:

    — Shelter: $81,797
    — Food: $190,384
    — Transportation: $492,208
    — Personnel: $1,782,610

    After nearly 100 immigrants were dropped off at Union Station downtown in the first week of December without warning, the city set up an emergency shelter at one of its recreation centers. With immigrants continuing to pour into Denver, the city set up a second emergency shelter.

    Hancock said he hopes to shutter the emergency shelters soon, but has not yet provided a timeline.

    For weeks, state and city officials — as well as immigration advocates — have said Denver was not the final destination for most of those coming to the Mile High City. Officials surmised the major east — west interstate corridor that connects Denver to Baltimore is what drew immigrants to the city.

    As many as 70% are believed to be stopping in Denver on their way to somewhere else.

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    City records indicate the most popular states for immigrants were New York (374 tickets), Illinois (401) and Florida (247).

    Georgia (134) and Texas (90) rounded out the top five.

    These newly arrived immigrants chose more than 100 U.S. cities as their final destination, after making a treacherous journey through South and Central America that in many instances took four months, according to immigrants The Denver Gazette spoke to. Many of them arriving in Denver were unprepared for the frigid weather, often wearing little more than sweatshirts.

    Their preference appears to be larger metropolitan areas.

    Immigrants' top city choices were: Chicago (399 tickets), New York City (345), Atlanta (122), Miami (95) and Orlando, Fla. (95).

    Emails obtained in a separate public records request show Denver did not coordinate with, or warn, other city officials before busing immigrants to them.

    It's unclear how much advance notice Gov. Jared Polis' administration provided.
    Earlier this month, Polis stepped in to help Denver with charter buses after subzero temperatures stymied local efforts to transport immigrants out of Denver to their desired destination, creating a backlog.

    The move provoked a national controversy akin to when Gov. Ron DeSantis last year transported immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, which is not typically a destination city. Many described the move by the Florida governor as a political message meant for Northeast Democrats.

    The reaction to Polis' intervention was swift.

    Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and New York City Mayor Eric Adams complained publicly about the busing and urged the governor in a Jan. 7 letter to halt the practice.

    The Polis administration ceased busing immigrants days later.

    The number of new arrivals has significantly tapered off since the beginning of the new year.

    In the final two weeks of 2022, Denver averaged 153 overnight arrivals every day. Over the past two weeks, the city has averaged fewer than 50 new immigrants each night.

    On Monday, Denver saw the fewest number of new arrivals — 19 — since the city began tracking the number of immigrants arriving in Denver.




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    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

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    This is embezzlement and misappropriation of OUR tax dollars!

    We are not the free travel agent for these foreign citizens who are NOT authorized to be here.

    They need to be expelled from our cities and bussed back to Mexico.

    Can we go invade Italy, the Bahamas, Sweden, New Zealand, and get free airline tickets, hotels, food and medical care? This is outrages!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    Why do they refer to them as "immigrants". So misleading. Call them what they are illegal aliens. Even migrant sounds better than immigrant.
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