A delegation of city officials has arrived in Texas for a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border amid the ongoing migrant crisis.
A small team of city aldermen delivered a message to the mayor of El Paso in a local gymnasium 1,500 miles away from City Hall.
The city's traveling delegation said the small border city that's a fraction of the size of Chicago is no longer feeling the financial strain and daily weight of supporting migrants on its own. In their first hours on the ground in Texas, Chicago aldermen toured shelters in El Paso run by non-profits to set up a network, a long line of communication on both ends of the migrants' path.
"I had a lot of conversations with not-for-profits, so we are going to begin to coordinate between not-for-profits in Texas and not-for-profits in Chicago. Something as simple as making sure that everyone that leaves El Paso has a coat," Ald. Hall said.
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