From [HERE] Far-left Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has overseen $356 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned money being spent on migrants. The total amounts to $7,900 per foreign national in the Mile High City.

The sum was revealed by the Common Sense Institute (CSI), a non-partisan research organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the U.S. economy, Fox News reports.

The group says it used city data to arrive at the sum which equates to eight percent of the city’s 2025 budget of $4.4 billion. The figures combine the Colorado city’s budget as well as regional education and healthcare organizations.

Johnston has already slashed city services to house and feed those migrants.

Cuts included reducing services at recreation centers and stopping the planting of spring flower beds, while the city tapped into a contingency fund to pay for the spiraling costs, Fox News notes. It adds:

The CSI claims that the bulk of the $356 million spent on migrants was through education, with the city also splashing out on healthcare, hotels, transportation and childcare. Denver is a sanctuary city, meaning it does not enforce immigration law, nor does the city cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The group says that about 45,000 migrants have arrived in the Denver metro area since December 2022, with 16,197 migrant students enrolling in Denver metro schools.

“The total cost to Denver metro schools related to new migrant students is $228 million annually, which would equate to 1-2% of the total state K-12 education budget for the 2024-25 academic year,” the group writes.

“Previous CSI reporting estimated the per-student cost of instruction and support in the Denver metro to be $14,100 per year. Assuming this cost across all recent migrant students totals $228 million.

Meanwhile, according to Denver Public School (DPS) records Thirty percent of white students are on track while just 5% of African American and Latinx students are. Nicholas Martinez with Transform Education Now says 95% of black and brown kids in DPS have trouble reading, the district should be sounding an alarm. Instead, he says it buried the data and he had to file an open records request to get access.

The DPS spring statewide assessment found that 95% of Black and Brown third graders at DPS could not read at grade level. The test also found only 18% of fourth-graders were proficient in math. [MORE]

Martinez says it's a wake-up call, especially in a school district that says equality matters, "We know when students are behind it's very, very difficult for them to catch up and so if we don't act swiftly, if we don't act decisively, these students learning progress for the rest of their academic career will be drastically impacted."

As Breitbart News reported, Johnston is known for his generous support for President Joe Biden’s illegal migrants and promised to use the city’s police department to physically oppose the efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to fulfill President-elect Donald Trump’s repatriation mandate.

Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar” designate, has responded by saying he would jail Johnston if he broke the law in shielding illegal migrants.

“All he has to do is look at Arizona v. U.S., and he would see he’s breaking the law. But, look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing. He’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail.” [MORE]