When they get desperate for money, they will have to start taxing where all the money is... the Lawyers, the Doctors, the Nurses, the Health Insurance Clerks, the freebie Program Administrators.
Then the screaming will start.
Working class people are already fed-up, they will start leaving the state, and their economy will crash.
Keep all the Federal level funding cut off. The benefits to the illegals will dry up, as the funding is consumed. They will start self-deporting.
Pull all of the ICE and DHS, and other Federal workers at Argon National Labs, out of the state, and send them to other states who do not threaten Federal workers.
The Only people remaining in Chicago will be the drug dealers, the Gang hitmen, the not-so-Wealthy-anymore Elites, and the Welfare Momma's. Crime and shootings will get much worse.
After that is achieved, keep the Federal Funds cut off. Wait for the next election.
If they just re-elect the same people, stating they will arrest ICE, keep the Funding cut off.
It might take three or four years for Chicago to become Detroit.
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