Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, has said that he wants to go to the southern border at an unclear date. This comes as his city continues to deal with a large number of migrants.
Some migrants in Chicago were locked out of a police station where they were staying on Wednesday, when the city was getting ready for more people to arrive. They gathered on a busy sidewalk with all their things.
Fox Chicago said that migrants, mattresses, furniture, carpets, and other personal things were piled on a sidewalk near the 1st District police station at 17th and State streets. The police station’s doors were locked, and the lobby of the building was empty, the news story said.
The Chicago Police Department and city leaders have been contacted by Fox News Digital.
A Venezuelan migrant told the news source that he had been staying in the lobby of the police station, but that it had closed on Wednesday. He said that the migrants were told to move their things outside, and a portable toilet was put on the ground.
Since last year, refugees have been staying in several police stations in the city. More than 9,800 migrants are living in shelters right now, and another 3,000 are still looking for a place to go.
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Since August of last year, more than 17,000 people have moved to Chicago. Many have been bused from Texas as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to move asylum seekers from border towns to so-called “sanctuary” cities to draw attention to the number of people looking for refuge.
The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, said on Wednesday that he wants to go to the border between the United States and Mexico. He didn’t say anything else about the planned meeting.
So, Johnson said at a news conference, “I’m going to the border to make sure that everyone knows that my administration is committed to making sure that we are putting together the full force of government at every level to make sure that these families, who are not illegal but are seeking asylum, are protected by international law.”
He said that as many as 22 cars full of migrants were going to arrive in the city on Wednesday.
The news source said that on the same day, people from Chicago’s South Side filed a case against the city to stop migrants from living in schools, parks, and police stations.
“It’s not about the refugees themselves; it’s about how the city treats them and how the government lies and tells half-truths. And they are not looking out for Chicago’s best interests. “If you call it a humanitarian effort, they shouldn’t be sleeping on the floor in police stations,” said Brian Mullins, who was in charge of putting the event together.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker sent a letter to the president on Monday with a list of demands about how the federal government’s reaction to the crisis at the border is not enough. He is one of a growing number of Democrats who have criticized Biden’s border policies. Pritzker said that more than 15,000 refugees from border states had been sent “like cargo” to Illinois “in a dehumanizing attempt to score political points.”
Pritzker wrote that the number of people arriving as refugees is “outstripping our ability to help them.”
“Unfortunately, the federal government has not been as welcoming and helpful to these refuge seekers as Illinois has been. “Most importantly, the lack of government action and coordination at the border has put Illinois in an impossible situation,” the letter says.
