Come to America, Start Making Demands

By January of this year, the city of Denver, Colorado, had received over 40,000 illegal migrants, some sent by the state of Texas, others who found their way on their own. That made Denver the city with the largest per capita population of illegals in the country. By late February, through exercise of its own “hot potato” policy of providing free one-way bus tickets to anywhere else, the city administration had been able to pare down the number  of migrants in city shelters to around 2,300.

Yet those housed in official shelters are not Denver’s only migrant problem. A number of large, illegal outdoor encampments have sprung up around town, and their inhabitants have been ignoring pleas from the city to leave for shelters or elsewhere. On Monday of this week, the migrants in one encampment responded to the city’s entreaties with a list of their own “demands,” including the following (verbatim):

1. 1. Migrants will cook their own food with fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients provided by the City instead of premade meals – rice, chicken, flour, oil, butter, tomatoes, onions, etc… Also people will not be punished for bringing in & eating outside food.
   2. Shower access will be available without time limits & can be accessed whenever – we are not in the military, we’re civilians.
   3. Medical professional visits will happen regularly & referrals/connections for specialty care will be made as needed.
   4. All will receive the same housing support that has been offered to others. They cannot kick people out in 30 days without something stable established.
   5. There needs to be a clear, just process before exiting someone for any reason – including verbal, written & final warnings.
   6. All shelter residents will receive connection to employment support, including work permit applications for those who qualify.
   7. Consultations for each person/family with a free immigration lawyer must be arranged to discuss/progress their cases, & then the City will provide on-going legal support in the form of immigration document clinics & including transportation to relevant court dates.
   8. The City will provide privacy for families/individuals within the shelter.
   9. No more verbal or physical or mental abuse will be permitted from the staff, including no sheriff sleeping inside & monitoring 24/7 – we are not criminals & won’t be treated as such.
   10. Transportation for all children to & from their schools will be provided until they finish in 3 weeks.
   11. No separating families, regardless of if family members have children or not. The camp will stay together.
   12. The City must schedule a meeting with the Mayor & those directly involved in running the Newcomer program ASAP to discuss further improvements & ways to support migrants.
   13. The City must provide all residents with a document signed by a City official in English & Spanish with all of these demands that includes a number to call to report mistreatment.

As you can see, the demands are in keeping with the entitled attitudes most of these migrants have brought with them. (In case you’re wondering, most of Denver’s migrants are from Venezuela.) In the list above, perhaps the most amusing statement — and the most incorrect — is from demand # 9: “We are not criminals & won’t be treated as such.” With which we disagree: criminals they most definitely are, regardless of how they are treated.

For more, see the NY Post.