The Spanish word for audacity is “audacia.” Perhaps the municipal officials in Denver, Colorado should practice using that language. After struggling for more than a year to shelter and feed the army of illegal migrants that have flooded into the city, Denver finally began imposing some limits on how long people could stay in the municipal intake shelters. This angered some of the migrants who were forced to leave the shelters and a group of them set up an encampment on public property as the spring weather began to improve. The encampment is located under an overpass near the railroad tracks. The Mayor’s office repeatedly requested that the migrants evacuate the encampment and move to other shelters that were set up to house them. But the migrants refused, and now they have sent an advocate with a list of demands that they say must be met before they will agree to relocate to a shelter. If you think this sounds like an outtake from the movie Idiocracy, you’re not alone. (KDVR News)
A group of migrants staying at an encampment in Denver sent a list of demands to the mayor’s desk.
That group said if their demands are met, they will voluntarily stay in city-funded shelters and leave their encampment where families, including young children, still live in tents.
The migrants have been lobbied by Denver Human Services to get off the street and into shelters — an offer that remains, according to city officials. But they are holding out and said the city has reneged on its deal with them, while the city maintains it will continue to offer services to migrants that choose shelter over encampments.
Just try to imagine the nerve of these people. They are in the country illegally having violated our laws. They are milling around in an eyesore of an encampment after being repeatedly told that they need to relocate to a shelter operated by the city where they would have a roof, a bed, running water, and three meals a day. But now they are issuing a list of demands that they say will have to be met before they agree to relocate.
So what are the demands of the migrants? First of all, they are complaining about the food at the shelters. They claim it is sometimes not of good enough quality or the portions are too small. Really? What sort of food are you getting under the highway overpass and who is delivering it? Welcome to America. We have a saying here about how beggars can’t be choosers. You need to ponder that.
Another demand is that they want work permits delivered to them. Some of the migrants at the shelters have eventually qualified for temporary work permits, so this group believes they should be automatically entitled to them also. Perhaps they are unaware that it is a crime for employers to hire illegal aliens. We have a process whereby immigrants can gain work permits, but it involves emigrating to our country legally. We are supposed to be finding jobs for our own citizens and legal immigrants first, at least in theory.
There were a total of 13 demands included in the list, all along similar lines. The crazy part is that the Mayor is reportedly considering granting at least some of them. These people don’t belong in a makeshift encampment under a bridge or even in a shelter that’s offered at the expense of the taxpayers. They should be in a deportation detention center being fully vetted, after which they should be “rewarded” with a bus trip back to their country of origin. But this is the “new normal” that we live with in the midst of the Biden border crisis. We can’t entirely blame the migrants for believing they are so entitled. That’s the expectation that Joe Biden built up in their community. Come to America where everything is free and you won’t have to work. For Pete’s sake, we really need to have a major housecleaning take place.