Residents of Chicago, Illinois, recently sounded off on Democratic Mayor Brandon over the crisis of illegal immigration the Windy City has endured in recent years. Chicago, like many other major cities in the United States, has faced a surge of illegal immigrants, straining resources and impacting local communities. Calling out the mayor in a city council meeting, tax-paying American citizens remind Johnson that they pay his salary to represent them, not foreigners.
Speaking directly to the city council, one woman stated, “We are the ones who pay your salaries. Let me accentuate on that, but yet you want to overlook us like we don’t exist.” Another man celebrated the imminent return of President-elect Donald Trump and his cabinet picks who vow to enact the deportation of illegal immigrants.
“The good news is we got 48 days before Trump take that oath in January. ICE gonna come in and get rid of these illegal immigrants. You got Kash Patel and Pam Bondi that you’re gonna have to deal with sooner than later. Then it’s gonna be an audit, then it’s going to be an indictment position that was going to happen to you,” he told Johnson.
One woman took to the microphone wearing a Make America Great Again hat, asserting, “Our mayor is embarrassing us. Y’all around the world, and you all took the power back from him to say the city of Chicago is out of the business of funding illegals. We are out of the business of prioritizing non-American citizens on top of the American citizen. American citizens who go out this call whether every day to make money to pay their taxes.”
President-elect Trump campaigned that he would follow through on his promise to deport individuals illegally residing in the United States, and his appointments suggest that he is taking this vow seriously. The American Tribune reported on comments from incoming border czar Tom Homan, who maintained that he would jail for local leaders interfering with deportation efforts around the nation.
Fox News host asked Homan, who joined the network for an interview alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott, “I heard this mayor out there in Colorado. I want to get your reaction to it. I want you to be clear about what jurisdiction the federal government or state and local governments, and if you’re a sanctuary state or city, are you breaking the law?”
Homan replied, “You’re absolutely breaking the law. All he has to do is look at Arizona versus U.S. you’ll see that he’s breaking law. But look me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing, he’s willing to go in jail.” He continued, “I’m willing to put him in jail because there’s a statute of his title eight in the United States, code 1324, triple i. What it says is it’s a felony if you knowingly harbor and conceal from immigration authorities, there’s also a felony to impede a federal law enforcement officer, so if he doesn’t want to help that’s fine, he can get the hell out of the way, but we’re going to go do the job.”
Watch the Chicago residents sound off on Mayor Johnson:
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