What does the influx of migrants cost the windy city? Who knows?

Does anybody have a clue?

. . . asks Wirepoints.

Layer after layer is piling up of incoherent numbers about the cost to taxpayers of migrants arriving in Chicago. It’s no surprise that the city and the state have now asked for a federal bailout from migrant costs, but how much is needed?

Again, who knows? The alderman in charge doesn’t.

CBS Chicago reported this week that the city has spent $100 million so far on migrant assistance, apparently referring to those who were bused in from Texas over the past year.  But that was news to the Chicago alderman who chairs the City Council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee, Andre Vasquez, who apparently had no idea what the number was. He blamed the Lightfoot Administration for not knowing what’s been spent or informing the council, saying, “The prior administration really didn’t communicate it at all.”

He’s my alderman, of whom Wirepoints notes:

Vasquez is a former hip-hop artist known as Prime. He’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

On which I comment:

Go easy on Vasquez (my alderman), who is smart, alert, and credible until demonstrated otherwise. And as such matters go, his interview went candidly enough. His being a socialist is not a plus, but in today’s market neither is it a minus. IMHO.

Wirepoints dissects and lays out the confused state of things in re: all that money going G-d knows where, providing a small case study of irresponsibility on state and city levels. I might lose my breakfast if I were to deal further with the whole mess. Good luck with it, or be satisfied with Wirepoint’s closer:

They signed a blank check by throwing out the sanctuary mat with no concern about cost.

Go gummint by blues.