Chicago’s migrant crises deepens: taxpayers rail against $65M shelters for homeless arrivals as temperatures plummet. ‘These people are just getting off the bus and everything …
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com[1]
Published: 16:28, 1 December 2023 | Updated: 16:30, 1 December 2023
Chicagoans are turning on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ‘open doors’ policy to migrants, staging daily protests against expensive new government-run tent shelters for the homeless[2] newcomers.
Hundreds of locals attended a community meeting this week, and dozens more have staged protests near a construction site where one of two new shelters is being built in Chicago[3]‘s Brighton[4] Park neighborhood.
The shelters, funded by the state of Illinois[5], are set to open within weeks.
They will house up to 2,200 asylum seekers and cost £65 million to build and accommodate some of those migrants sleeping on floors or in tents outside city police stations.
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