By: Diane Benjamin
Declare yourself an asylum seeker in Illinois! Can’t afford groceries? Illinois uses your tax dollars to feed illegals. Ditto healthcare. If you can’t afford the premiums, imagine how many US citizens living in Illinois could have been funded with the money our dear leaders have thrown to illegals.
AI generated summary:

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I don’t believe any of that spending is included in the numbers the Illinois Comptroller reports.
https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/financial-reports-data/data-sets-portals/chartsgraphs/asylum-seekers
According to the Illinois Comptroller website:
Before August 2023 Pritzker spent $478,000,000 on asylum seekers, also known as people who illegally entered this country.
From November 1, 2023 through November 13, 2025 Illinois (Pritzker) spent another $175,652,681.
Total:
$653,652,681
People living paycheck to paycheck were forced to pay the needs of people who didn’t return the favor.
The below is included in that number: (Click on the left and right side to see the whole pic)


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This Group is an AI firm, not Accounting/Auditing. They did get $5,075,000 for something that wasn’t auditing.
The contract details say next to nothing: https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/financial-reports-data/data-sets-portals/chartsgraphs/asylum-seekers
See The Boston Consulting Group website here: https://www.bcg.com/industries/public-sector/overview
AI and this Group are going to fix all of Illinois’ problems – except how to pay for all the illegals here demanding healthcare.
Why does any voter want their money spent supporting people who entered the country illegally?


That’s minimum $1000 a year taken out of the pockets of a family of four. Think of the college funds not funded. The nicer cars not bought. The proms that were missed as ‘too expensive’. The family vacations not taken or not nearly so nice. The retirements delayed. So much for the ‘party of the working man’…