The more than 42,000 migrants who have arrived in Denver over the last year and a half have cost the region as much as $340 million, according to a new report that shows how the crisis has expanded beyond the city’s borders.
The report by the free-market Common Sense Institute found that the city of Denver, local school districts, and the region’s health-care system have spent between $216 million and $340 million combined to shelter, feed, clothe, and educate the migrants, and to provide them with emergency medical care. The report builds off a previous report from March that conservatively found that the migrants had cost the region at least $170 million.
DJ Summers, the institute’s research director, said the updated report makes it clear that the bill for the migrant crisis is not just being paid by the city of Denver.
“Costs are never localized,” he said. “They expand outward.”
Critics say that the city’s Democratic leaders are partly to blame for the crisis because of their welcoming posture toward immigrants generally, and their sanctuary-city policies, which curtail law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with federal immigration agents.
Since late December 2022, at least 42,269 migrants — or “newcomers” as Denver leaders call them — have arrived in the city. The crisis peaked in January, but has since leveled off. Nine migrants arrived on Monday and eleven arrived on Tuesday, a city dashboard shows.
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