Sanctuary City Spends $8,000 Per Illegal Alien

A new study reveals that the sanctuary city of Denver, Colorado has spent a total of $356 million in taxpayer funding on support for illegal aliens, which equates to roughly $7,900 per illegal.

According to the New York Post, the research by the Common Sense Institute (CSI) determined that Denver has spent at least 8% of its 2025 budget on enforcing its “sanctuary city” policy of protecting illegals from deportation by refusing to cooperate with federal authorities. At least 45,000 new illegals have come to the city since 2022.

Of that $356 million, $256 million was spent on education for over 16,000 illegal minors enrolled in Denver schools, plus $49 million for healthcare for illegals, among other costs.

Doctors in Denver have said that local hospitals are struggling due to the massive influx of patients on a regular basis, as a direct result of the flood of illegals coming into the city. Denver police have also struggled to combat a spike in violent crime as a result of the increasing illegal population.

Despite the extreme costs and strain on the city’s public resources, far-left Mayor Mike Johnston (D-Colo.) has vowed to use local authorities to violently resist federal authorities in the event that the incoming second Trump Administration seeks to deport illegals.

Johnston openly declared in an interview with a local outlet that he would have Denver police “stationed at the county line to keep them out” of the city, comparing his would-be resistance to the Tiananmen Square protests.

Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan, who has been designated as the new Border Czar for the coming Trump Administration, responded to Johnston’s remarks by saying that he is “willing to put” Johnston in jail if he defies immigration authorities.

The immigration crisis was consistently ranked as one of the top two most important issues to voters in the 2024 election, with former President Donald Trump campaigning on a vow to enact the largest mass deportation operation in history, and to finish building the southern border wall that he started in his first term.