(The Center Square) – Some Black leaders from the Chicago area are urging others to ditch Democrats and vote Republican.

After Wednesday’s GOP breakfast outside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee Wednesday, Republican Cook County State’s Attorney candidate Bob Fioretti made his case to the media that he will bring back law and order.

“You can’t bring businesses to the county unless we have safety in our streets, safety in our schools, safety in every community,” he said. “Unless we have that, people are not coming back.”

Illinois and Cook County are among the areas losing the most population to other states, according to annual U.S. Census data.

Pastor David Lowery Jr., a pastor with Universal Baptist Church in Harvey, stood alongside Fioretti and said Black voters should join him in ditching the Democratic party.

“This is a simple fact right here, of 60 years of Democrat rule, Black people need a change. We need to give Republicans a chance to see what they can do because we have not done that,” Lowery said.

Lowery said the Black community is impacted by crime and the poor economy and “don’t own anything.”

“There is nothing that the Democrats have done or will they do across this country for Black people but use us, so why not Black people let us give the Republicans a chance to show what they can do for our communities as well,” he said.

Mark Carter of Chicago said one issue pushing the Black community over to Republicans is Democrats giving resources to illegal immigrants.

“This is happening all across the country,” Carter said. “The Democrat party is birthed in continued social engineering savagery and if you want to stop it, you have to replace this party.”

In the budget Democrats approved for the state, taxpayers are on the hook for around $1 billion in subsidies for migrant health care, housing, food, education and legal services.

Republicans continue their convention through Thursday. The Democrats hold their national convention in Chicago beginning Aug. 19.