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Jessica Jackson was one in a series of residents who blasted
city council members at committee hearings.
“We ain’t taking no disrespect from a bunch of people who have
broken into the country and now have completely broke the city,”
Jackson said.
Jackson encouraged Democrats to follow former presidential
candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former U.S. Rep. Tulsi
Gabbard by leaving the party.
After hearing from angry residents at the Joint Committee
Hearing on Immigration and Refugee Rights and Housing and Real
Estate, 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez proposed a
November referendum for voters to impose a 3% income tax hike on
the wealthy to pay for migrant care.
“We have 120,000 millionaires who live in the city of Chicago
who can pay their fair share. And there are solutions so that we
can do both: care for new neighbors as well as the current
neighbors,” Sigcho Lopez said.
Alderman Sigcho Lopez is a member of the Chicago City Council’s
Socialist Caucus.
More than $900 million in state of Illinois taxpayer funds have
been budgeted for migrant care in fiscal year 2025. Chicago
taxpayers have spent at least $300 million on migrant care.
According to Chicago resident P Rae Easley, it is not fair to
residents when the city council spends hundreds of millions of
dollars on migrants.
“It is drowning the taxpayer. It is forcing everybody’s rent to
go up. It’s forcing everybody’s mortgages to go up, because the
property taxes are going up. There is no stoppage for the
illegals who are coming up here, because you guys have already
magnetized our city,” Easley said.
Chicago is facing a budget deficit of nearly $1 billion.
City Budget Director Annette Guzman announced a series of budget
restrictions on Monday, including a citywide hiring freeze and
stringent limitations on non-essential travel and overtime.
Guzman said in a statement that the restrictions are effective
immediately.
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