Posted on 03/17/2024 3:37:53 AM PDT by Libloather
CHICAGO - Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration reversed itself Friday, announcing migrants will no longer start being evicted Saturday from Chicago’s migrant shelter system. It’s the mayor’s latest about-face in his handling of a 60-day shelter limit policy that has seen months of delays and backlash.
However, the administration said they will evict 35 migrants Sunday, and the pace of evictions after that is unclear.
During a Friday briefing with City Hall reporters, Johnson’s deputy chief-of-staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas confirmed the change ahead of Saturday’s deadline for the first group of migrants required to leave the shelters. The mayor had told reporters Wednesday the city would move ahead with limited evictions, amid outcry from a group of aldermen opposed to the policy.
The late change comes as residents of a Lower West Side shelter currently grapple with a measles outbreak. As of Thursday, 12 cases of the highly infectious disease have been reported in Chicago — the first such cases in five years — ten of which are from the migrant facility that is in the midst of a lockdown.
It is unclear how many migrants would have been affected were the Johnson administration to have proceeded. While his team previously estimated as many as 5,600 migrants could be removed under the shelter limit policy, he hinted Wednesday that scores would have been spared thanks to exemptions granted by the city.
Those required to leave were going to be directed back to the city’s landing zone if they wished to restart the process of waiting for a shelter bed. The mayor had indicated those affected would not make up “a substantial number,” given the exceptions made for those in the process of securing permanent housing or facing health circumstances.
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Contagious collective. Elected individual, the Chicago mayor, is not smart.
Of course not
Next weeks excuse: Joe needs his toenails clipped
they will evict 35 migrants Sunday,
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How about they deport 3,500,000 illegal aliens on Sunday ???
That would be a good start...
The rest on Monday...
Wait until they finish up their squatter’s rights classes. You’ll never get them out.
“amid outcry from a group of aldermen opposed to the policy.”
They are only talking about 35 being released today. These aldermen with a knot in their knickers must be able to come up with a room or a sofa in their house to take in these “migrants”. Surely the safety and welfare of these electoral votes are worth it.
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Yeah, like there will be fewer diseased illegals in a week.
I questioned the logic of keeping several thousand migrants confined inside the O’Hare airport terminal with highly infection diseases. International air travel mixed with deadly disease vectors could kill a large part of the planet in short order.
But who am I? Obviously not the mayor of Chicago!
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/migrants-chicago-measles-vaccine-shelter-stay-extension/
They have to be vaxxed!
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Very good point.
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