Sanctuary states, which provide housing, food, and medical treatment to newly arrived immigrants who entered the country under President Joe Biden’s administration, want to give out billions of dollars in government funds to migrants by 2024.
A $237 billion budget for New York was adopted by lawmakers, and it is anticipated to be signed by Governor Kathy Hochul (D). Of that amount, around $2.4 billion would go toward providing recently arriving migrants with housing, healthcare, and legal assistance.
The Republican who leads the New York State Senate, Rob Ortt, has issued a warning, stating that providing money for migrants will simply encourage more people to enter the sanctuary state illegally.
The Chicago City Council voted 30–18 to authorize an additional $70 million in cash for housing, food, and medical treatment for the almost 40,000 migrants who have landed since August 2022 in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois.
Additionally, Chicago is receiving $48 million in funding from the federal government and Illinois state officials to provide medical care for migrants. Legislators in Illinois are poised to provide even more funding—roughly $182 million—to migrants as part of a 2025 budget.
In opposition to the money, Democratic Alderman Anthony Beale declared, “They will not come if you turn off the cash spigot.”
“When will we be able to help us?” When will we begin to assist those in need here? Beale enquired.
Governor Maura Healey (D) and other state Democrats in Massachusetts, a sanctuary state, want to spend hundreds of millions of public dollars on immigrant shelter services.
Democrats in Colorado, a sanctuary state, are working to create a grant program that would help immigrants “navigate services and programs within a year of their arrival in the United States in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.”
