Chicago faces “a humanitarian crisis” amid a surge of immigrants from the southern border. City Council will soon be asked to spend $53 million from the city’s budget surplus to care for the thousands who have already made their way to Chicago.
More than 100 asylum-seekers have moved into the former Wadsworth Elementary School in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
That has forced dozens of men, women and children to sleep on the floor of police stations across the city while they wait for beds, officials said. Immigrants who arrived by plane are also sleeping at O’Hare, as first“This is a humanitarian crisis,” said Nubia Willman, the head of the Office of New Americans. “We are aware a new approach is necessary.”
That surge began about 10 days ago, officials said, catching city officials off guard who were relieved that the crisis appeared to have eased after peaking in the fall. City officials were focused on preparing for a new wave of people to make their way to Chicago after federal officials stop enforcing a public health rule designed to limit the spread of disease by expelling asylum-seekers on the southern border on May 11.
In all, the city received just $5.5 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to care for immigrants who arrived in 2022, Budget Director Susie Park said. The city had asked for $17 million.
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