There’s No Such Thing as Free Parking in Biden’s America
More than two dozen buses dropped hundreds of immigrants off in the parking lot of the Sam’s Club near Denver’s Central
Park one December morning, and the only person there to greet them was Greg Lenora, a security guard hired by Sam’s Club to protect the parking area.
“One thing I can say is they are really, really polite,” Lenora told a local television station of the city’s unannounced guests. “They are not saying anything malicious or angry. They are just here to get money.”
City officials said the arrival of immigrants was news to them. Neither the federal government nor any state nor the nonprofit organization that paid for the buses to transport the immigrants gave the city any indication they were coming. Hence Lenora being the only one on hand to greet them.
As polite as this batch of immigrants may have been, however, Lenora’s presence in the parking lot that morning suggests that previous waves weren’t as well behaved. Lenora said Sam’s Club had hired his employer to guard the parking lot because some customers were reporting that they were getting charged to park in the parking lot and that if they didn’t pay, they couldn’t park.
Before President Joe Biden’s border crisis, parking in the Sam’s Club parking lot had always been free for customers. But now immigrants were harassing customers who just wanted to shop. “Some had spray bottles and paper towels to wipe down windshields,” Lenora told local news. “Others were helping customers to their car, trying to load whatever, and afterwards, they asked for money.”
The city of Denver is paying to house more than 4,000 immigrants, and that number is expected to increase as a migrant encampment near Zuni Street and West 27th Avenue is set to be liquidated soon.
“It’s not human,” Jon Ewing of Denver Human Services said. “It’s not in the best interest of the people staying there. It’s going to be cold this week. Let’s get a roof over their heads. It will also make it easier for us to work with them and get them a better solution.”
Denver has housed more than 35,000 immigrants since the Biden border crisis began, spending more than $36 million. The city pays each family’s first month’s rent, the security deposit, and security fees. The city will also pay for up to three months of rent, but after that, the immi
grants are expected to come up with the money on their own.
“They should have federal dollars to help support them in the cities they arrive in,” Denver’s Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston told CNN. “We should have a coordinated national plan for where these folks arrive.”
Nope. Sorry, Johnston. No federal dollars should be given to cities to bail out Biden’s border crisis. We do need a national plan, though. But not to coordinate where illegal immigrants go. What we need is a coordinated national plan to stop releasing illegal immigrants into the country. Only then will more stop coming.