Illinois will spend nearly $41 million dollars on just one specific program called “Immigrant Integration.” At the height of Biden’s open border policy, the amount was over $93 million.
Another state program is Welcoming Centers. The GATA database says this about Welcoming Centers:
The Illinois Welcoming Centers Program (IWC) has four fundamental components: Comprehensive Case Management, Community Education, Community Alliances, and Co-location. The goals of the Illinois Welcoming Center Program are to strengthen the overall human service delivery system for immigrants, refugees, asylees, humanitarian parolees, and LEP populations, and to build the capacity of organizations serving immigrant, asylee, and refugee communities.
The state allocation to Welcoming Centers has ballooned under Governor Pritzker. In FY19, the budget prior to Pritzker, the state spent $1,499,000 on the program. For FY26, the budget calls for spending $25,000,000, a 16-fold increase in just seven years.
All this money for assimilation, and yet many illegals refuse to understand American founding principles, adopt American customs, and abide by American laws. They are more than happy to take taxpayers’ support, however.
More alarmingly, this money is going to numerous activist NGOs that are behind the anti-Trump, anti-ICE protests. One of the biggest NGOs that receives funding for immigrant services is the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. This year, they are set to receive over $42 million from Illinois taxpayers. This chart is from the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act (GATA) database.
Here’s a recent Facebook post for ICIRR.
