{"id":2219199,"date":"2024-04-12T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/denver-to-cut-police-fire-dept-spending-to-help-pay-for-illegal-immigrant-crisis-report\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:45:04","slug":"denver-to-cut-police-fire-dept-spending-to-help-pay-for-illegal-immigrant-crisis-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/denver-to-cut-police-fire-dept-spending-to-help-pay-for-illegal-immigrant-crisis-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver to reduce police and fire department funding to support illegal immigrant crisis, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdenver-to-cut-police-fire-dept-spending-to-help-pay-for-illegal-immigrant-crisis-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2219199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Denver&#8217;s city announced budget cuts \u200dfor various departments to allocate more funds\u2063 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-destructive-consequences-of-bidens-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Biden's border crisis has destructive consequences.\">supporting illegal immigrants<\/a>. Mayor Mike Johnston introduced the &#8220;Newcomer Program Strategy,&#8221; a $90\u2062 million budget plan aimed\u200d at\u2062 aiding and sheltering illegal immigrants. To fund the plan, the city will reduce police and fire department spending, with the Mayor&#8217;s office facing the most significant cut. Your summary \u2062is concise and effectively\u200b conveys \u200bthe key points about Denver&#8217;s budget cuts to support illegal immigrants\u200c through the &#8220;Newcomer Program Strategy.&#8221; The reduction in police and fire\u200c department spending to fund this initiative, with the\u2064 Mayor&#8217;s office experiencing the \u2063most \u200bsubstantial cut, is highlighted.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The city of Denver announced budget cuts to some departments this week, including the police, sheriff, and fire departments, to allocate more funding for illegal immigrants who have overwhelmed Colorado\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced the cuts on Wednesday, celebrating the move as a way to avoid \u201cthe worst-case budget cut scenarios.\u201d The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denvergov.org\/Government\/Agencies-Departments-Offices\/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory\/Mayors-Office\/News\/2024\/Newcomer-Strategy-Avoids-Budget-Cuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcomer Program Strategy<\/a>\u201d is a nearly $90 million budget plan that funds aid and sheltering for illegal immigrants through the rest of 2024, Fox 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/local\/denver-introduces-nearly-90m-newcomer-budget-plan-for-migrant-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. To pay for the illegal immigrant plan, the Democrat-run city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com\/article\/news\/local\/2024-services-migrants-budget-cuts-denver-agencies-fund-programs\/73-a8654a1f-0a20-4928-9d4d-f8a3c2966719#:~:text=The%20Denver%20Police%20Department%20will,for%20police%20officers%20or%20firefighters.\">will cut<\/a> police spending by $8.4 million and fire department spending by $2.5 million, while the Sheriff\u2019s Department will be hit with a 2.2% reduction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter more than a year of facing this crisis together, Denver finally has a sustainable plan for treating our newcomers with dignity while avoiding the worst cuts to city services,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cSo many times we were told that we couldn\u2019t be compassionate while still being fiscally responsible. Today is proof that our hardest challenges are still solvable, and that together we are the ones who will solve them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/denver-scrambling-to-handle-40000-new-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrambled<\/a> earlier this year to find a way to shelter an estimated 40,000 migrants who had arrived in the city over the course of a few months. The mayor took action to help mitigate the strain on migrant shelters by requiring that migrant families leave a shelter after staying for six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston\u2019s office said in January that the migrant influx was \u201cstraining capacity\u201d and that \u201cover the past two months, Denver has seen a dramatic uptick in arrivals and is currently sheltering 4,000 people.\u201d The mayor added that the city would need to come up with $100 million to pay for the crisis. Denver, which is a \u201csanctuary city,\u201d followed up weeks later by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/denver-booting-800-migrant-families-from-shelters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">booting<\/a> around 800 migrant families from overcrowded shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The new city budget plan allocates $51.7 million for migrant shelter and housing, according to Fox 31. Another $9.7 million will go toward \u201csupportive services,\u201d including case management and workforce training, and $6 million will be allocated for migrant transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s office took the biggest hit in budget cuts to help pay for the illegal immigration crisis with a 9.6% reduction in spending. Other city departments taking a budget hit include the City Attorney\u2019s Office, Economic Development, Public Health and Environment, and the Public Library, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Denver\u2019s \u201cNewcomer Program Strategy,\u201d comes as Colorado voters voice their frustration with the crisis at the U.S. southern border as residents listed immigration as the top issue for the 2024 election in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-colorado-voters-say-immigration-is-the-top-issue-as-2024-election-draws-closer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigration emerging as a top issue among voters in Colorado follows trends we are seeing in research nationally,\u201d Republican pollster Lori Wiegel said.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has become a Democratic stronghold in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-coalition-decries-treatment-of-jan-6-defendants-in-dc-gulag\/\" title=\"Republican Coalition Decries Treatment of Jan. 6 Defendants in \"DC Gulag\"\">recent presidential elections<\/a>. President Biden won the state over former President Donald Trump by nearly 14 points in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-colorado.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020<\/a>, a significant increase in Democrat support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/2016\/results\/colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016<\/a>, when Hillary Clinton won the state by just five points.<\/p>\n<p>Denver isn\u2019t the first blue city forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-seven-woke-spending-proposals-in-bidens-budget\/\" title=\"Here Are Seven Woke Spending Proposals in Biden's Budget\">make budget cuts<\/a> to handle the illegal immigration crisis. Last year, New York City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/eric-adams-cuts-police-education-budgets-to-deal-with-ongoing-illegal-immigration-crisis-pounding-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut education and police spending<\/a>, dropping the number of NYPD officers to below 30,000. The Big Apple has seen over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-to-start-53m-program-that-will-hand-out-prepaid-credit-cards-to-illegal-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">150,000 migrants<\/a> flood its streets since 2022 as the border crisis continues under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Denver revealed budget cuts impacting the police, sheriff, and fire departments to allocate more funds for illegal immigrants in the city. Mayor Mike Johnston embraced these cuts as a preventative measure to avoid severe budget reductions, aiming to address the challenges stemming from the influx of illegal immigrants in Colorado&#8217;s capital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2219200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1246210976-scaled-e1712922640126.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1246210976-scaled-e1712922640126.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}