BREAKING NEWS – Denver, Colorado – The city of Denver announced some of its employees may have all their hours cut in order to reallocate funds towards dealing with the city’s migrant crisis.
“The City of Denver is trying to avoid the word ‘layoffs’ when it comes to impending budget cuts. So instead, they’re telling some hourly on-call employees they may have their hours reduced to zero,” local NBC affiliate 9News reported.
The city government is looking to cut $4.3 million in funding from its Parks and Recreations department and use that money towards handling the migrant crisis that has been stressing the city’s resources.
“The employees of the city that may be out of a job, can handle this,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stated at a press conference. “Even if they can’t pay their rent and are evicted, they can live on the Rocky Mountains, free of charge. We cannot ask the migrants to do that, because they lived below the southern border and would probably freeze to death.”