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Chicago's migrant crisis spirals out of control: City spent nearly $1 million on failed camp before pulling the plug - as officials now IMPOUND buses bringing migrants to the city from Texas on Gov. Greg Abbott's orders
Daily Mail ^ | 12-15-23 | GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO

Posted on 12/15/2023 10:10:57 AM PST by dynachrome

Chicago spent nearly $1million to build a migrant camp on a toxic site, as the city continues to struggle with a massive surge of asylum seekers, with officials now impounding incoming buses.

Official records seen by ABC 7 show the city spent more than $985,000 on the shuttered migrant camp at a Brighton Park lot - despite warnings that the site was not safe and outrage by locals, including a lawsuit.

The nearly $1million bill is not much compared to the total expected cost of the camp, which was mostly financed by the state government under a $125million contract with a private contractor.

The state put up $65 million for the tent camp and for permanent structures at a site in the Little Village neighborhood. Together, they would house 2,200 migrants.

But the state stepped in on December 5, putting an end to the controversial project over environmental concerns at the former industrial site.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; busing; chicago; chicongo; illegals; impounding; keepthemrolling; sanctuarycity
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To: dynachrome

Prepay some local hotel rooms for a day or two?


21 posted on 12/15/2023 11:30:02 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: dynachrome

Send them by train and see if Chicago will impound trains.


22 posted on 12/15/2023 12:03:50 PM PST by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: Graybeard58

Yup.
Bus then to the South Shore Line light rail terminal in Gary, IN and give each of them a $7 ticket to Millennium Station in downtown Chicago.

Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way. ;-)


23 posted on 12/15/2023 12:35:38 PM PST by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: dynachrome
Keep 'em coming Gov. Abbot.

Yep. Head 'em up, move 'em on. Move 'em on, head 'em up. Rawhide!

24 posted on 12/15/2023 12:41:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

Texas and bordering states have been dealing with a war zone ever since Biden.barry opened the border. Main stream media don’t show the masses.. The pictures nor a story on the border crisis. People don’t know till it hits their living space. The Buses had to go to the other cities to put pressure on security at the border. Your government is destroying America.. You just don’t know it yet. Get a few more buses to your city and you’ll scream loud enough to get something done.

This is committing treason by the government. Putting all of us in harms way.


25 posted on 12/15/2023 12:56:05 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Bernard

What song is that?


26 posted on 12/15/2023 2:11:24 PM PST by Jean2
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Chicago-area suburbs reject busloads of immigrants arriving from Texas

Chicago suburbs such as Schaumburg and Elk Grove Village have acted decisively:
<><>passed ordinances preventing illegal immigrants from being housed in hotels.
<><>passed an ordinance preventing illegals from residing there without a doctor’s certification
<><>illegals must prove they don’t carry infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.
<><>Elk Grove has blocked its many factories and shopping centers from housing immigrants,
<><>the village bought a hotel housing illegals and demolished it.

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27 posted on 12/15/2023 2:23:51 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: dynachrome

They should have done this bussing to sanctuary cities a lot sooner. Seems to be effective.


28 posted on 12/15/2023 2:47:54 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Jean2
What song is that?

The phrase "he'll never return and his fate is still" is a line from the song "MTA" by the Kingston Trio. The song is about a man named Charlie who is stranded on a train because he doesn't have enough money to pay the exit fare. The song's chorus asks "Did he ever return? No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned".

29 posted on 12/15/2023 3:05:14 PM PST by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: pepsionice

We don’t need no stinkin’ laws.


30 posted on 12/15/2023 3:14:23 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't match your biography, what good is it?)
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To: dynachrome
they would house 2,200 migrants.

Give them 5K cash a a ticket to anywhere. Look at the savings!

Only 11 million!

31 posted on 12/15/2023 3:28:53 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: gitmo
Walls? What walls??

We dont need nosteenkin' fence; either!

32 posted on 12/15/2023 3:30:16 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dynachrome

IMPOUND buses bringing migrants to the city from Texas, on what grounds?


33 posted on 12/15/2023 3:41:47 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

being used in interstate racketeering.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1952


34 posted on 12/16/2023 2:59:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Jean2
“M.T.A.” was written by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes in 1949. It appears on the Kingston Trio album, At Large (1959).

This is a story song about a man named Charlie, who finds himself trapped on the Boston subway system, known at the time as the M.T.A. The song was originally recorded as a mayoral campaign song for Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien Jr. The song has become so entrenched in Boston folklore that the Boston-area transit authority named its electronic card-based fare collection system the “CharlieCard” as a tribute.

https://genius.com/The-kingston-trio-mta-lyrics

35 posted on 12/16/2023 5:29:23 AM PST by Bernard (We honor veterans who fought to keep this country from turning into what it now is. --Argus Hamilton)
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To: Elsie

thx...


36 posted on 12/16/2023 9:02:09 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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