Josh McBroom, a Naperville city council member, proposed a “sign-up” list for residents willing to house migrant families, challenging those who voted Democrat to live by their values.
He emphasized the need to address the migrant crisis without using taxpayer dollars and targeted those who supported an “open border policy.”
McBroom criticized Chicago’s sanctuary city status and Democratic initiatives, expressing concern about the impact of the migrant crisis on his city’s resources.
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“In light of the fact, I’m not going to support using other people’s money to house or aid – I do know that there’s a lot of people that do care, and I think we live in a compassionate community, so before we go down the road of, you know, following suit on some of these other cities are taking action on, my idea would be – let’s find out, let’s find out who’s willing to help,” McBroom said.
“You know, we do hear from constituents on both sides of this, what are we going to do to preemptively stop this? And then we hear from people that tell us we should do more. So we do have a very affluent community, a lot of big homes, and what I’d like to do is direct staff to create a sign-up sheet so for individuals that would be willing to house migrant families.”
“And if there’s people that would do that, God bless them. So if we could raise awareness in that way, I think we need to find out. I think we need to find out who would be willing to house migrant families. That would be my new business. I would be looking for support from the diocese. Any questions, discussion, happy to have that,” he said.
“I took it on myself, I’m like, we’re gonna address this problem right here. And here’s a potential solution,” McBroom said. “I mean, we’ve got a major crisis and Chicago is 30 miles away from us and the mayor of Chicago is begging the suburbs to help out, and we’re not gonna expend any taxpayer dollars for this issue.”
“If you want to live your virtues, and you support this policy, and you live in a nice, comfortable home in this town, then maybe, maybe open it up,” McBroom said.
“People have signs in their yards that advertise that they support this policy,” he noted.
“They’re voting for people that have supported this open border policy… am I being provocative with my proposal? A little bit, but I’m being genuine, too,” McBroom said. “Over half of the town voted for this policy. Are you gonna help out? Because we’re not going to spend tax dollars on it.”
“I don’t think that the open border policy is in any way humane at all… It’s okay to be sympathetic. I mean, these people were misled. And we’re seeing little kids at the bus stations without coats on. And I didn’t vote for this. I didn’t support it. A lot of us said, ‘Hey, this is going to end in a disaster,’” he later added.
He emphasized the federal responsibility in addressing the issue and highlighted the strain on Naperville’s capacity to accommodate migrants.
“We don’t have the public resources. We’re not going to be able to house 50, 100 families. We’re not going to pay for them to stay in hotels,” he said. “I don’t think that it’s in my purview, at least as a city councilman. My job is to protect the city budget and the taxpayers. And it’s just not in my purview to say, ‘hey, we’re going to use your taxpayers to house people that are non-Naperville residents, or non-U.S. citizens, for that matter.'”
“[Democrats] are doing everything they can to not address the actual problem. And it’s a problem now and it’s just like, ‘hey, you guys tarred us this problem. Do not ask us to fix it for you,’” he added.
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