Denver, Colorado is asking its residents to house illegal immigrants as shelters are overcrowded.
The move comes as Mayor Mike Johnston (D) announced budget cuts to the city.
“I want to thank every resident in the city who has showed up to cook a meal for someone who has arrived, who has welcomed somebody to their home, who has offered them a job, who said, ‘We will help you find your way,’” the mayor said during the announcement. “You’ve done your part. The city will do our part. The federal government did not do their part.”
Some of the budget cuts include recreation centers closing one day each week, ending in-person vehicle registration renewals, and landscaping expenses.
Nearly 40,000 migrants are expected to be moved out of shelters.
“We put out a feeler to all the landlords we have connections with,” Jon Ewing of Denver Human Services told Fox 31. “Basically said, listen, we’re going to have some newcomers who are going to need housing.”
The state of Massachusetts has a similar plan in the works, moving to spend $10.5 million on contracts with resettlement agencies to move illegal immigrant families as shelters have reached max capacity.
Eight agencies are working on the matter and will move 400 family units out of state-run shelters by the end of the year.
In November, it was learned that Denver spent millions of taxpayer dollars to provide illegal aliens with free flights and bus tickets out of the state.
Records obtained by CBS News Colorado reveal that officials in the city have spent almost $4.5 million in taxpayer money thus far to send more than 12,000 border crossers to alternate destinations.
In the last five months alone, nearly 335 illegal aliens have been awarded free flights, at a cost of $115,000, to leave the sanctuary city.
“We say, ‘Where do you want to go?’ and then we buy them a ticket, usually by bus, and get them on their way,” Ewing stated.
