Denver to slash budgets by up to 15% due to ongoing illegal immigrant crisis
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Denver's mayor is preparing his city for cuts of up to 15% due to the ongoing migrant crisis the that has drained the city's budget by tens of millions of dollars.
He said he has asked agency heads to begin to draw up plans for the cuts in the 2024 budget. He also said that the 4,800 migrants in shelters means that it does not have space to house anyone else at the moment. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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"We have a lot of suboptimal options which are either offering everyone onward travel to another location or trying to hope they have friends or family they can stay with here, but we think we are at a very different tipping point than we’ve seen any way up to this moment," he said on Tuesday.