Posted on 12/09/2023 2:45:15 PM PST by DFG
Plans for a multimillion-dollar tent camp that would have sheltered almost 2,000 migrants a night from the bitter winter cold are now being scrapped by the state after toxic chemicals and heavy metals were found onsite.
In the meantime, outside organizations — especially churches — are pitching in to help.
Three Chicago aldermen are now calling for the resignation of seven officials from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration after the city insisted multiple times that the site was still safe to build on and that the most problematic levels of contamination had been removed.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker pulled the plug on the construction of the $65 million tent camps in the Brighton Park neighborhood, near Midway Airport, after the state Environmental Protection Agency reviewed an 800-page report released by the city. The report showed that mercury, arsenic, lead, cyanide, pesticides and the now-banned cancer-causing compounds known as PCBs were found on the 9.43-acre property.
After the state announced it was permanently canceling plans for the site, Johnson said “discovering toxicity there wasn’t a surprise." City officials have pointed out that mercury had been removed and gravel had been put on top as part of remediation efforts and that it would have been safe.
But residents of the neighborhood have been protesting since plans were first made public. After the announcement of the cancellation, locals expressed relief.
“It is toxic and now can we sit down and actually talk about what we can do that is humane — this is a concentration camp," Brighton Park resident Richard Zupukus told NBC Chicago.
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Well, I guess that’s why the land was available.
Got caught ... trying to rid themselves of the “migrants” deceptively.
NO! The toxic metals are for the CITIZENS! The ILLEGAL INVADERS get 5000 dollar gift cards, a sailphone and marching orders.
So now illegals will be part of a Camp Legune or Agent Orange pay-day on top of the $800K for cgold separation in the commission of a feliny?
My response is : the money should have been spent on incarceration and fly outs of every one of these charges to our Republic...F these welfare scumbags...fight in your own borders and then we may assist you. With what would have been left over you then prosecute and hang those allowing this treasonous action.
Nice try, Chicongo. You’ll have to find a way to live with those illegals.
More proof that here is no one quite as stupid as black commiecrats (except white commiecrats).
Why not build more enclosures at the zoo?
Hey, now we know what to fill up those Gaza tunnels with!
Is the Obama Library still looking for a home?
This was the plan all along.
Next spring the UN will discover a "humanitarian crisis" because so many of the illegal immigrants they forced on us died over the winter and they will send in UN soldiers to protect the precious illegal invaders from the racist white supremacist legacy US citizens.
Plenty of help assisting illegals avoid state or federal income tax:
The volunteers at Grace and Peace help migrants get cash jobs...
Just call it a mine for the production of EVs and EV trucks.
Problem solved!
The value of the land will skyrocket, and the Big Guy will get his 10%.
That’s a good excuse.
these hypocrites
from the mayor on down
if they really cared about the glorious and beautiful migrants who have blessed us with their presence
they would all step down and let them takeover
the mayor the aldermen etc.
c’mon guys
show us some commitment
This has got to be FAKE NEWS, With man made global warming running amok and threatening spontaneous combustion on a planetary scale, there is absolutely no reason for worrying about “bitter cold” anywhere in the US.
Indeed it’s not like it is any worse than where they were living.
Just like all the utterly ridiculous “Land Acknowledgements” I see all over the Northwest and western Canada. They basically say “Yes, we stole your land. Thank you very much. No, we are not giving it back.”
None of them show any commitment. None of them sold their cars, live in animal skins, sleep in caves or eat raw bugs and carrion.
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