Posted on 05/23/2023 1:15:23 AM PDT by Libloather
New footage shows a Chicago police station filled with mattresses and dozens of illegal migrants, as the city struggles to house the hundreds of border crossers arriving there each day.
Officials in Chicago have said they cannot afford to rent hotel rooms for the more than 8,000 migrants who have arrived in their city and have pushed for more federal funds to cover costs.
Due to the lack of available shelters, some migrants have turned to police stations for a safe place to sleep.
Videos and photos showed hallways at a Chicago precinct littered with mattresses and personal belongings with migrants camped out on them, while cops and visitors go about their daily business.
Chicago is one of several Democratic-run cities where southern states have bused migrants as the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border grows.
The migrant-housing crisis in Chicago follows last week's end to the Trump-era COVID-19 border restriction known as Title 42, which allowed U.S. authorities to send migrants back to Mexico without giving them a chance to seek asylum.
Tens of thousands of people hurried to cross the border illegally into the U.S. before President Joe Biden implemented a strict new asylum policy to replace Title 42.
In the shocking footage posted by photojournalist Rebecca Brannon, dozens and dozens of migrants are seen sitting on and around mattresses in a Chicago police station.
Brannon reported that many of the migrants have slept and eaten on the floors, which has placed a strain on the law enforcement officers whose day-to-day jobs have been made more difficult by their presence.
Small children were seen running around and an alley sits full of trash produced by the migrants.
Chicago already has a serious violent crime problem, with its new influx of migrants likely to further strain budgets...
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In the words of an honest and religious former French politician, Marion Marechal LePen, those who said there is no problem now say there is no solution.
Asked for it, voted for it, now wallow in it.
All is going according to plan. Nothing to see, move alone.
Oh, and where’s my reparations.
This was done so as to destroy the country, and specifically to disable the police force in democrat areas. Next the newcomers will be given places to live and money. They will blend in, but you will be much poorer.
That sounds safe and efficient.
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