We’re Pissed Off and We’re Not Going To Take It Anymore
Chicagoans are mad as hell, pissed off, as it were. Who knew that by declaring itself a sanctuary city, those illegals seeking sanctuary would actually believe the mayor and his lackeys meant it. The pols certainly did not foresee the border chaos that was to ensue during the early Biden years.
Actually, average Chicagoans should not be blamed. They had little to do with it. They have little to do with most of the self-serving, self-aggrandixzing, self-perpetuating schemes concocted by their corrupt Democrat machine politicians—like building high-rise ghettos, then tearing them down two decades later to build low-rise ghettos.
I was surprised to learn that the history of Chicago as sanctuary city goes back to the 1980s when Harold Washington, 51st Mayor of Chicago and its first Black mayor, issued an executive order in regard to illegal immigrants. At the time, there was another immigration crisis during the first term of Ronald Reagan’s presidency that was a legacy of his ineffectual predecessor, Jimmy Carter.
The crisis affected a future president as well. Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas during the Mariel Boatlift Crisis of 1980. Fidel Castro had emptied his prisons of undesirables and allowed the freed felons and others who wanted out of Cuba to flee to the U.S. They left from the port of Mariel. Thus, they became known as Marielitos. Many were temporarily housed at Fort Chafee, Arkansas, much to Clinton’s chagrin and resulting in a cratering of his approval ratings. It led to him losing his 1980 reelection bid, one of only two elections that Clinton ever lost.
Chicago’s days as a “sanctuary city” where undocumented people can access city services and live without fear of police harassment date back more than 30 years.
In 1985, then-Mayor Harold Washington issued an executive order prohibiting city employees from enforcing federal immigration laws. He made the move to protest the federal government’s decision to question people seeking city services and conduct random searches of city records in an effort to find undocumented immigrants.
Four years later, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley affirmed the executive order. In 2006, the City Council turned the order into law as the immigration debate raged on in Congress.
It prohibited city agencies from asking about the immigration status of people seeking city services. The ordinance also prohibited Chicago Police from questioning the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses or other law-abiding citizens. (Chicago Sun-Times)
As is usually the case with progressives, they ignored the chaos at the southern border that their open borders policy created and averted their eyes and ears as pleas for help from the cities and towns that were being overwhelmed by the crush of illegals went unheeded. The left, of course, is adept at throwing other people’s money at far-away problems as a virtue signal, then taking shelter from the resulting fallout and blaming someone else, usually Trump.
Chicagoans, too, ignored the border crisis—until that is, illegals began arriving on their doorstep to take advantage of the alleged sanctuary being offered. The welcome was less than cordial.
“Not in This Nigga’s Backyard”
The simmering unrest boiled over when proposals surfaced to house a significant portion of migrants on the South Side of Chicago where a majority of the city’s Black population resides. The Black vote is critical for Chicago Democrats to remain in power, as it is nationally. However, just as on a national level, the Chicago Democrats often take the Black vote as a given. The Black mayor and City Council no doubt thought they could slip this one past the brothers. There might be some isolated dustups, but ultimately the dust would settle.
They were not only wrong. They were spectacularly wrong, to the point that some Black neighborhood groups are now calling on Donald Trump for help. Some are even supporting his election in 2024. So much for minorities supporting other minorities. When it comes to dividing the welfare pie, piece size matters.
Stories making headlines in the Second Sanctuary City Media
Also not mentioned in mainstream media are the secret flights that the Biden Administration is underwriting to fly illegals from border points to some of the very cities whose mayors are complaining about the immigrant-dumping already occuring in their jurisdictions.
Both Chicago and New York have Black Democrat progressive (read Marxist) mayors. One would think that their demands would receive the highest priority from the Politburo in Washington, but General Secretary Biden can’t seem to be bothered. When the going gets tough, Biden goes beaching—not Rehoboth lately; too cold. This time he is in St. Croix, lovely this time of year.
As this Titanic of an immigration disaster continues taking on water, those in command are still rearranging the deck chairs and jettisoning the lifeboats. No one seems to think it might be a good idea to plug the leak. Comandante Biden is nowhere to be found as the ship continues its plunge to the bottom. He sidles along the beach, watching as the ship of state sinks.