Chicago’s far-left Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced a “Healing Arts” mental health program to help the local population cope with immigration raids.
During an appearance on Chicago’s WCPT 820’s Driving it Home on Wednesday, Johnson admitted the city is “literally paying artists” to help improve people’s mental health as they deal with the reality of illegal aliens being detained and eventually deported.
He explained:
We’re connecting mental health towards what we call our Healing Arts Chicago program, working with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and with our community colleges where we’re literally paying artists, paying artists to provide activities to ensure that — and roughly 200 artists, to be specific — paying these artists to create these activities that ultimately provide the type of mental health support that’s so critical, right?
With so many things that are going on and so much anxiety as Donald Trump has, essentially militarized the ICE agents and has increased their budget to the extent to which the only other two budgets that are bigger than ICE are the militaries of the United States of America and China.”
It is just an absolutely egregious act at a time at which he’s cutting Medicaid from people, he’s cutting SNAP, literally taking away food and medicine, shortchanging our veterans as well, all of these cuts.
Over $800 million just taken out of violence prevention, and, when we talk about the mental health and the stability of our communities, it is so crucial that we are partnering with these community-based organizations, along with the city services to ensure that a safe and affordable community can actually be realized and we’re paying attention to the mental well-being of our residents.
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Johnson has never made any secret of his desire to see Chicago flooded with illegal aliens and their right to become residents and ultimately citizens of the United States.
“This is a necessary fight for all of us to be able to push back,” Johnson recently said of Trump’s program of mass deportations.
”Whether we use the courts or whether we continue to protest and raise our voices, dissent matters in this moment.”
“It’s a war on our culture. It’s a war on our democracy. It’s a war on our humanity.”
“I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment because, whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next.”
“None of us are immune from this disease,” he added.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Deportations a ‘War on Our Humanity’ — Then Calls ICE Agents a ‘Disease’
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