A Chicago resident criticizes the city’s mayor and describes illegal immigration as a “Ponzi scheme.”

While the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to take strict measures against him illegal immigration, Chicagoans are bearing the brunt of the migrant crisis in the Windy City.

A resident targeted Mayor Brandon Johnson over the city’s illegal immigration “Ponzi scheme.”

“He (Johnson) should be convicted of treason. We are dealing with a democratic socialist mayor, and he is bringing an agenda to Chicago that will not succeed. It is an illegal immigration agenda that is out of control.” “Since last year,” Chicago resident Zoe Lee said. “Evening Edit” Friday.

“We have a $1.2 billion deficit because of this illegal immigration scam. I call it a Ponzi scheme.”

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Along with other blue haven cities like New York City and Denver, Chicago saw an influx of immigrants During recent years.

Fox News data indicated that the Windy City spent $574.5 million on immigrants, joining the likes of other blue strongholds such as New York City, Boston and Denver, which spent massive amounts of money.

Johnson, who has vowed to resist President-elect Trump’s deportation of illegal immigrants, is trying to overcome a problem Billion dollar budget deficit By the end of the year.

“It’s gotten out of control,” he told me. “Chicago went downhill so quickly, especially the South Side and West Side of Chicago because of all the money that was stolen because of the immigration scam. They thought they were going to be able to put illegal immigrants into our communities and we were allowing that.”

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“Now they’re all over the place because they don’t have any money to cover this or deny this in Chicago.”

Trump the next border czar, tom Homan, He has been a staunch advocate of the administration’s immigration policies. The former acting director of ICE even sent a warning to Chicago, a city Homan says will be one of the first to see deportations.

“Chicago is in trouble because your mayor is bad and your governor is bad. And we’ll start here in Chicago, Illinois,” Homan said during an event on Thursday.

“Now,” he threatened, “if the mayor of Chicago doesn’t want to help, he can stand aside. But if he obstructs us, if he intentionally harbors or hides an illegal alien, I will prosecute him.”

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Fox News’ Taylor Penley and Stephen Surace contributed to this report.