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Chicago to move migrants from police stations to tent camps before winter under mayor’s plan
Updated 7:16 PM CDT, September 7, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly 1,600 migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. will be relocated from Chicago police stations to winterized camps with massive tents under a plan by Mayor Brandon Johnson, according to a report released Thursday.
The relocations will occur “before the weather begins to shift and change,” Johnson said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.
The tents could hold up to 1,000 migrants, he said, and the camps would provide meals and recreational and educational programming.
Sixteen city shelters now house 13,500 migrants, with more arriving every day, at a cost to the city of about $30 million per month the newspaper reported.
Johnson’s administration is working with the state and Cook County to create more shelters to relieve some of the pressure on Chicago, he said.
“These families are coming to the city of Chicago. . . . If we do not create an infrastructure where we’re able to support and, quite frankly, contain these individuals who have experienced a great deal of harm, individuals who are desperate . . . that type of desperation will lead to chaos,” Johnson said.
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https://apnews.com/article/chicago-asylum-migrants-police-stations-camps-26919a553fe661234a332a777564f660
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Tent camps in Chicago winter? That should encourage them to move elsewhere.
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It would be a public relations nightmare if they moved the migrants into tents AFTER it got cold.
They can get some Summer tents on closeout. Move them into tents in good weather to make it as TV-friendly as possible. Then, they can let them freeze to death and blame Global Climate Change.
Now that's public image management!