Chicago Mayor Melts Down Over ‘Illegal Alien’ Term, Calls It Racist

Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson ignited controversy this week after angrily attacking a reporter for using the term “illegal aliens” during a press briefing. Instead of addressing a serious question about federal reporting requirements and city spending tied to migrants, Johnson exploded calling the legally accurate term “racist” and “nasty.”

“We don’t have illegal aliens,” Johnson said, visibly irritated. “I don’t know if that’s from some sort of sci-fi message that you wish you've had… The legal term for my people were slaves. You want me to use that term too?”

The mayor of America’s third-largest city just compared using a federal legal term to slavery.

The reporter’s question came amid mounting scrutiny over how much taxpayer money Chicago is spending to house, feed, and support thousands of undocumented migrants flooding into the sanctuary city. Instead of transparency, residents got a virtue-signaling meltdown.

Johnson doubled down, demanding euphemisms over facts. “Let’s just get the language right. We’re talking about undocumented individuals that are human beings,” he insisted. “I’m not going to accept that type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.”

Here’s the truth Johnson refuses to acknowledge:

• The term “illegal alien” is a federally recognized legal classification used in U.S. immigration law and by federal agencies, including DHS and ICE.

• Johnson’s own sanctuary city policies have turned Chicago into a magnet for illegal immigration, straining public services and contributing to rising crime.

• Just last week, three illegal immigrants and six U.S. citizens were arrested in Chicago in what DHS called “one of the most violent days” of Operation Midway Blitz.

That operation was launched after Katie Abraham, an American citizen, was killed in a hit-and-run involving Julio Cucul-Bol, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. While Johnson waxes poetic about terminology, American families are grieving over losses that could have been prevented.

Johnson was joined in his rhetoric by far-left Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who tried to spin the legal facts into progressive talking points, saying immigration violations are “not criminal offenses.”

But the American public knows better. Illegal entry is a violation of federal law, and harboring or aiding illegal aliens especially those involved in violent crimes puts communities in direct danger.

Instead of addressing public safety or the $16.7 billion budget crisis facing his city, Johnson bragged about more spending on “education, environmental justice, and youth employment,” while planning to soak the “ultra-wealthy” with new taxes.

This, as crime continues to surge and neighborhoods struggle to handle the influx of non-citizens receiving public assistance.

Johnson also repeated his usual anti-law enforcement rhetoric, calling incarceration a “sickness,” and blaming policing not criminals for unsafe streets.

This is the kind of backwards thinking that turns once-great cities into cautionary tales.

What Chicagoans desperately need right now isn’t language policing it’s real leadership. Leadership that puts American citizens first. Leadership that honors the law instead of twisting it into some political game. And leadership that tells the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable.

Until then, more citizens will suffer the consequences of an open border and a mayor more concerned with political correctness than public safety.

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