Chicago to house migrants in winterized tents in a barracks-like facility

Well, it's better than nothing. Enjoy!

It's plenty warm back South of the Border.

This affects you personally...how, r2?

Round up all the hawt ones and I’ll be the towel boy!

It's still a step-up from what they had back in Guadalahoochie.

Did the red-tagged migrant troll log in on a new device?

The neighborhood is majority black, but has a sizable white population, so it is probably safe (as safe as any neighborhood, regardless of demographics, is these days in Chicago)—working/middle-class. More problematic (but predictable) is that it is far from the sections of Chicago where people can find jobs or communities. I’m sure that’s a deliberate strategy—accept them, but put them out of sight and make navigating the city as difficult as possible.

Never change, my hometown.

The only migrant news I care about is migrants hooking themselves outside of Home Depot

Now I'll be able to go to a centralized place to find my next Rosario.

𝐀𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝: ‘𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞’

Over the weekend, a fight broke out near the 1,163-resident migrant shelter at the former Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, just the latest brawl to be caught on camera outside one of the high-population shelters downtown.

With the city buckling under the growing number of migrants — 12 buses carrying 560 more asylum hopefuls arrived this weekend — and no sign of the influx slowing down, tensions among migrants, residents and business owners are reaching a boiling point. The neighbors say they’ve witnessed frequent fights, loitering and other misconduct.

“I don’t think any of us care that there is a shelter there. It is the fact that there are zero attempts to control the situation and we don’t feel safe here,” said Brandon Vulpitta, the owner of Brando’s Speakeasy, a popular karaoke bar near the shelter on Plymouth Court. “Our clients don’t feel safe anymore.”

Most nights, large groups of migrants sit and stand while drinking at the park and harassing female passersby, a scene that he says discourages his patrons from visiting the restaurant, which is known for its location and its unique view of the city. The number of visitors at the restaurant, which is open from 4 p.m. to midnight daily, has drastically decreased, going from 400 to 500 on Thursdays and Fridays in the summer of 2022 to roughly 150 now.

“We want to help and understand the humanitarian crisis but this behavior makes it extremely difficult,”

Seems like that behavior would be par for the course for the South side

R7, I'm not trying to elicit racist "send them back" posts. If that's what this thread produces, Muriel should delete it.

I don't know what to think about Johnson's approach to housing migrants, although the camps can be ready to accommodate people in a couple of weeks. Rehabbing housing will take months. If people don't have something to do or someplace to go during the day, of course, they're going to get into trouble.

The city has to move quickly. It's about to get real cold here in Chicago. It sucks seeing these people in front of police stations but because they don't realize how freakin cold it's about to get. It's late September and the thermostat is about to drop. Hopefully, the feds give them temporary papers to work for they could get on their feet.

If it gets that cold, then it'll kill the lice and vermin they have on them.

I really wish I ever heard a migrant strategy that would actually work.

R15

One of my best friends here in TX works for DHS and TX DPS - he mostly works on border issues. He’s brilliant: PhD from MIT, West Point, Rhodes Scholar, etc., and is politically liberal. We were having drinks a few weeks ago and I brought up the shitty optics (at a minimum) of the Rio Grande buoys with the razor wire. He agreed that it was the wrong thing to do (let me note that he has no control over that decision) but also shared that people are coming over in largely increasing waves and the TX border cities are really suffering. We basically ended the conversation agreeing that people shouldn’t die to cross over but that this was a pretty bad crisis that is getting worse.

Is there a strategy, besides shoring up Central American countries instead of trashing them the way we did back in the 70s and 80s? I don’t think anyone has a clue - even the highly educated people who’ve worked on the problem for years and years. It’s just tragic and overwhelming.

Those tents sound like the COVID overflow wards instituted during thr pandemic.

Winterized? Does Orvis make them?

R16

There is no other strategy that will work other than fixing the problem at the source. You don’t have to be a right winger to understand that these immigrants are not going to stop trying and they are going to be bringing with them a whole host of truly difficult very expensive issues to deal with.

No one wants to have an immigrant camp or an influx of immigrants living near them. Do a survey of those who live in BoysTown Chicago and ask how much they want to see an influx where they live..

Fixing the the problems at the source could take decades and trillions but it might actually work. Nothing else is going to work not even a friggin wall.

Always winterize your uninvited guests.

They have nothing to eat over in their country. The new comers are a welcome edition to this country of immigrants. Well, of course the natives, but you know what I mean.

It is okay to put a limit on the number of refugees we accept although undoubtedly some sham claims will get through and legitimate claims will be denied.

Border town NGOs are sending migrants to Chicago. From the Chicago Tribune:

Why can’t we send 1,000 people to Chicago?” asked Ruben García, director of Annunciation House, a migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, where numbers of migrants are also soaring. “Obviously Chicago isn’t equipped, but we need to rise to the occasion. … We should be prepared for whatever comes our way.”

With resources strained in Texas, individuals such as Montilla are receiving all-expenses-paid tickets from the emergency departments in border cities — Del Rio, Eagle Pass, El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville, McAllen — to sanctuary cities. Catholic Charities in San Antonio are sending planes full of migrants to O’Hare International Airport.

[quote] Catholic Charities in San Antonio are sending planes full of migrants to O’Hare International Airport. ndividuals such as Montilla are receiving all-expenses-paid tickets from the emergency departments in border cities

Catholic Charities is how Joe and Kamala launder federal taxpayer money to fund filling America with migrants. So they can deny THEY are paying for it.

Catholic Charities uses about 89% of its revenue for program costs. Catholic Charities is listed as an Accredited Charity by the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. In 2010, Catholic Charities had revenues of $4.7 billion, $2.9 billion of which came from the US government.

They do good work. They need an incentive to relocate migrants more evenly across the nation.

R24, and they sell pretty white babies for lots of cash as they house fallen doves prior to their delivery.

A forced birth scam agency.

“Here there is employment. I want to grow — economically and personally,” he said in Spanish.

Montilla is just one of the hundreds of new migrants who have arrived in Chicago in the past week with an uncertain future, as the number of asylum-seekers has surpassed 15,000 with the arrival of 27 buses since Saturday, including seven on Wednesday. With the city running out of room to house them — as thousands sleep on police station floors and at airports awaiting shelter placement — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday defended his administration’s decision to contract with a private security firm to help place the new asylum-seekers in base camps before winter.

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They no longer bother with the excuse of escaping terror and tyranny

Doesn't it snow a lot in Chicago in the winter?

Can’t wait to see how it’s going when the weather goes 30 below zero.

Why don’t they send them to areas that need people like Wyoming?

Economic refugee seem to be doing well

CHICAGO — A Venezuelan citizen living at a downtown migrant shelter was carrying nearly $2,000 cash when Chicago police arrested him for jumping a turnstile at the Lake Red Line station, according to his arrest report.

It happened as CPD Mass Transit officers were conducting a “platform check” at the station, 188 North State, on September 19.

Officers said they saw 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘐𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳, 28, hop the station turnstile, walk down to the platform, and board a Red Line train around 12:50 p.m.

After removing him from the train, the officers took him into custody for misdemeanor theft of services. They said he was carrying $1,863 cash. That’s enough to pay for 745 rides on the “L.”

It’s the second brush with Chicago police for Labrador, who listed a home address at the Standard Club migrant shelter, 320 South Plymouth. On May 25, he was cited for drinking on the public way outside the shelter. That charge was dropped in July.

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Itchy and scratchy

The Chicago Department of Public Health shuttered a Northwest Side police station this week after one of the migrants living in its lobby contracted scabies, NBC5 reported Tuesday.

Rahm Emanuel shut down 50 schools all at once. Can't they use them buildings to house some of these people? It doesn't make sense that the city put them up in downtown.

They have met with resistance in one community.

They moved migrants into another school in Woodlawn over community opposition.

[quote] They moved migrants into another school in Woodlawn over community opposition.

The protestors don't have the clout they used to.

Ciudad de Chicago's "community" has been reshaped in the last several years and the process is accelerating.

31.4% White, 29.9% Latino, 28.7% Black, and 6.9% Asian.

Where is the money going? One nurse made 20k in one week. After that disclosure, the city is fighting the release of more financial records.

The poor desperate pitiable refugees are fast learn how to game the system.

R37 A mother’s work is never done!

Patsy*** Parsley roflmao 🤣

[quote]Parsley Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, CO

And just like that a DL icon has died.

Chicago city council realizes it's overpaying for services.

[quote] Chicago city council realizes it's overpaying for services.

As if anybody didn't already realize this is all an opportunity to scam hundreds of millions.

Aug 13, 2023 — The cost of the Randall's Island migrant shelter works out to $10,000 per migrant a month

I love hearing people who supposedly trekked through the jungle complain about their food. On the other hand, we're paying exorbitantly so there needs to be accountability.

I love migrants who trekked through the jungle complain about their food. On the other hand, since the city is overpaying, they might as well get decent meals.

We heard you the first time, r43.

Sorry for the dp

We toldja so

“Where are ‘shooting galleries’?”

FREE STUFF !

CHICAGO — A Venezuelan migrant charged with robbing a Divvy bike worker in Lincoln Park was released from custody the next day to await trial, according to Chicago police and court records.

The Divvy employee reported the robbery by flagging down a Chicago police officer at State Parkway and North Boulevard around 5:45 p.m. last Thursday. He told cops that he was placing Divvy bikes into a rack when Anthony De Jesus Bautista, 22, asked to use one, according to a CPD report.

When the Divvy employee explained that Bautista had to pay to use the bikes, Bautista shoved the worker to the ground, and an accomplice took a Divvy bike and rode away toward the lake, the report said.

His arrest report listed the Standard Club migrant shelter at 320 South Plymouth as his home address.

Prosecutors did not ask Judge David Kelly to hold Bautista as either a flight risk or a public safety threat.

Remember when people said Abbott and DeSantis busing illegals to cities like NYC and Chicago would be ineffective? The people in those cities need to feel the pain until they force their leaders to admit that open borders and shielding illegals is wrong.

A pound of crystal meth was recovered by police in a room at a Staten Island hotel that has been converted into emergency housing for migrants, according to sources.

The drugs, which were stuffed inside a black bag, were first spotted by a worker at the Ramada Inn on North Gannon Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, law enforcement sources told The Post.

An asylum seeker had resided in the room where the meth was located, sources said, but no one was there at the time of the discovery.

Police are investigating how the drugs ended up at the hotel and who brought them there.

The hotel was turned into a 35-unit shelter to house incoming migrants on May 4, according to local politicians who decried the transformation.

“So long as the City is forced to continue spending taxpayer dollars to harbor illegal immigrants while cutting services for our own citizens in need, there is no light at the end of the tunnel,” Borough President Vito Fossella and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said in a joint statement at the time.

“𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 $𝟗𝟑,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐬, which is more than many Staten Islanders make in one year,” the statement said.

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How much the average voter make a year tax free ?

Religious breeders never cease putting themselves and their crotchfruit in the absolutely worst life positions possible. But America absolutely needs young wage slaves, if capitalism is to maintain eternal “growth”. So best of luck to them as they join our bloody church of profit.

If the Dems don’t stand up strong for border security they are just not serious about wining the election, And those not serious about wining deserve to lose.

Will they have there 5 year old children selling chocolata on the El?

Menu Icon Chicago Tribune Search Icon Jumble Daily & Crossword Play Now SUBURBS State money to help migrant assistance in the suburbs comes with both appreciation and wariness By Robert McCoppin Chicago Tribune • Published: Oct 06, 2023 at 5:00 am

Expand Karina Archundia, left, a migrant from Ecuador, greets volunteer Celine Woznica with a hug and kiss as she and other migrants who are staying at a police station in Austin eat, shower and socialize at the rectory at St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Catholic Church in Oak Park on Oct. 5, 2023. Karina Archundia, left, a migrant from Ecuador, greets volunteer Celine Woznica with a hug and kiss as she and other migrants who are staying at a police station in Austin eat, shower and socialize at the rectory at St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Catholic Church in Oak Park on Oct. 5, 2023. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Local officials usually welcome money from the state, but recent grants to Chicago suburbs to address an influx of migrants met with some backlash, highlighting how controversial the issue has become.

In Joliet, news that the local township would get nearly $9 million to handle incoming migrants prompted immediate opposition from city officials and some residents. Mayor Terry D’Arcy asked township officials to withdraw the grant application.

“If the township accepts this grant and individuals arrive in our city,” the mayor said, “it will be a tremendous strain, overtaxing our existing infrastructure, impacting our Joliet school system social services, public and private health resources, and public safety.”

State officials recently gave $11 million in grants to five suburban and downstate governments to help accommodate arriving migrants and $30 million for Chicago. Debate over the grants reflects mixed feelings over how to handle the issue.

Local officials usually welcome money from the state, but recent grants to Chicago suburbs to address an influx of migrants met with some backlash, highlighting how controversial the issue has become.

In Joliet, news that the local township would get nearly $9 million to handle incoming migrants prompted immediate opposition from city officials and some residents. Mayor Terry D’Arcy asked township officials to withdraw the grant application.

“If the township accepts this grant and individuals arrive in our city,” the mayor said, “it will be a tremendous strain, overtaxing our existing infrastructure, impacting our Joliet school system social services, public and private health resources, and public safety.”

It’s so easy to be a progressive if it’s not your store being run out of business, if you are not living among large groups of new arrival immigrants, if you are not concerned by crime and strain on resources.

In Chicago, all public schools are full of non English speakers. The ones who speak English aren’t taught much. ALL of the efforts go to the non English speakers. The classes are ALL “ English as a second language.” Telling kids to shut up is the lesson mostly. This is terrible.

R58

It’s not just the lack of English that takes up so much teacher time. It’s the fact that so many of these young kids are deeply damaged. Acting out and significant behavioral problems become expected and normal. And those issues can dominate the class room.

The NYT takes notice of Chicago's situation.

The crisis has caused clashes in the Chicago City Council, whose members have fought over how much to spend on the asylum seekers amid other pressing priorities in the city of 2.7 million people.

“It’s a logistical nightmare,” said Andre Vasquez, the chairman of the city’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “You’re going to see more people on the street figuring out a way to survive.”

Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat, has offered resources and financial support from the state. Since August 2022, his administration has allocated $328 million in aid, according to a spokeswoman.

But it is not nearly enough, city officials say. Chicago leaders signed a $29 million contract last month that calls for the sheltering of migrants in winterized tents. And the overall cost of housing and feeding the migrants is skyrocketing: The city is expected to spend at least $345 million in less than a year and a half, according to city officials. (The Chicago Public Schools, for comparison, have an annual budget of more than $9 billion.)

Mr. Pritzker, in a letter to President Biden this week, said that more aid from the federal government was urgently needed.

Currently, more than 10,000 migrants are in shelters, according to city data. Close to 3,200 are staying at police stations and airports.

Volunteers have worked to help the asylum seekers in the spirit of Chicago’s tradition as a sanctuary city for immigrants. But in some neighborhoods, there has been growing resistance. Public meetings to discuss opening shelters have turned into shouting matches, with residents accusing city officials of prioritizing the needs of new arrivals over longtime Chicagoans.

R57, in other words: It is easy to be a progressive if you have money and are privileged. You are insulated from the effects of the policies you advocate, and so are your children.

R58 -- In my ultra, ultra progressive neighborhood, I've talked to so many people who wrung their hands over the lack of "diversity" in the local schools. But then when it came time to put little Emma into school, they fought tooth and nail to get into the "best" (ie, whitest, richest) schools. The less-white schools had plenty of room and were courting the wealthier parents, but their precious crotchfruit had to fight 1000 other candidates for the seats in the "good" school.

And once in, they began wringing their hands again about the lack of diversity.

As I said, it's easy to cry "diversity" when your kids don't have to go to the overwhelmed schools full of traumatized, often aggressive kids with minimal-to-no English skills.

R61 All very true.

Bless your heart, r62.

If beating up on rich elites for not living up to their progressive principles did anything real, society’s challenges would have been fixed in the 60s. Unfortunately, it is addictive pastime for those who are educated and righteous but have less privilege.

Well meaning but hypocritical liberals are not the enemy. Apathy is. Which is exactly what these “both sides are awful” moments achieve.

R64, I beg to differ. Without "well meaning but hypocritical liberals," neighborhoods and schools that are already troubled wouldn't be bursting with migrants who are eroding services and opportunities for native Chicagoans.

And I disagree that they are truly "well meaning." For so many, it's about soothing their consciences and reminding themselves and their social circle of what a truly good person they are.

Any wealthy person who truly, passionately feels that this country should be open to everyone in the world, with no restrictions or vetting for criminal history or diseases, should be putting up as many families as they can on their own dime, with their own resources, on their own property.

Otherwise, you're writing a "compassionate" check and forcing the less fortunate to cash it, while you bask in your do-gooder glow.

The blacks in Chicago will NOT put up with this shit. The blacks in Chicago fear NO MAN. Good luck, chicago.

R65, let’s not be disingenuous. You think immigrants in the country are a bad thing. Rich liberals force these vile people on others, but not themselves.

History has not been kind to people like you. Southerners who upheld slavery by pointing out Northern hypocrisy. Russians who justify their oppression by pointing out that democracy includes racism and poverty. Germans who castigated the world for not taking their Jews.

The reality is that rich liberals are willing to ante up. Look what happened in Martha’s Vineyard. DeSantis lied to the migrants and promised them jobs and housing. Your hated rich liberals actually provided them.

They're being housed right near the lakefront. Wonderful location, especially in January. Another really smart Chicago Mayer.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATES

[quote]The blacks in Chicago will NOT put up with this shit. The blacks in Chicago fear NO MAN. Good luck, chicago.

I saw a black Chicago woman on NBC News the other night, filmed as she had the microphone at a town hall-style event:

“I don’t want those people moving in next to me!”

The phenomenon of "well meaning but hypocritical liberals," has been recognized for many years now.

Here’s the thing: people need to be paid a living wage. LIVING WAGE. Why are we not holding the billionaires who are building billion dollar yachts accountable for their employees less-than-living wage? So much disposable income we read about all the time, but working people are becoming anti-union? Dumbed. Down. America.

Where you have unions you have the members being scalped

Friday, October 6, 2023

Poor oppressed migrants.

These people are in America for exploitation. Why is America making it SO EASY to come here and foul the country? Meanwhile, kids can’t even move out of parents homes because jobs won’t pay a living wage. This is wrong. Kids today can’t mice ANYWHERE! Yet here are these creeps moving into hotels and getting welfare. None of the foreigners seem at all terrified or concerned about anything.

*move anywhere.

[quote] Why is America making it SO EASY to come here and foul the country?

The country is too white and not enough of them vote democratic. That' s just not fair.

A Venezuelan migrant living at the Central (1st) District Police station managed to get arrested on his first day in Chicago, according to a CPD report documenting the incident.

Tarra-Gic told officers he “arrived in the city yesterday from El Paso.”

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Chicago cops responded to the Gage Park migrant shelter on the evening of October 5 to handle “a crowd of people… rioting and surrounding the staff,” said a CPD arrest report for Maria Nunez, 28.

Staff members told the cops that “everyone was fighting” because the staff told someone they had to move to a different shelter, the report said.

What happened next? Let’s go to the videotape:

Somewhere in all that, police say, Nunez pushed a cop and hit the officer in the chin. Nunez “hid behind other individuals in the crowd” to avoid being arrested, and the crowd itself “began to push and use their bodies to prevent police from arresting Nunez, the report said.

The cops eventually took her into custody. She’s charged with felony resisting and felony aggravated battery of a police officer.

Judge Ankur Srivastava released her to await trial.

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Jesus Marval Segura, a 21-year-old Venezuelan who currently lives at the Wentworth (2nd) District police station but previously lived at the Standard Club migrant shelter in the Loop, got caught jumping the turnstile at the Grand Red Line station, police say.

Officers arrested Segura because he had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court for a pending matter.

Those charges were filed on September 22 after Rosemont police arrested Segura at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago for allegedly stealing merchandise worth $415 from the Tommy Hilfiger store.

When police arrested him, he possessed a fraudulent U.S. Permanent Resident Card and a fraudulent Social Security Card, according to prosecutors, who charged him with felony possession of fraudulent identification and misdemeanor retail theft.

Judge Mary Marubio released him the next day, but he failed to show up for his first court date three days later, and a judge put out a warrant. He was released again yesterday.

So glad we live in Glencoe…

We certainly are.

Winter will bring a real blast of hospitality. Welcome to the USA. Things must be really bad at home because this host country plans on taxing the shit out of these people. They will realize their new role soon enough. Venezuela etc. will start looking better soon enough.

I have such concern in my heart for the 19-year-old Venezuelan woman who gives birth in Chicago and then must wait in line to get her kid his SS card and passport but is entitled to 200. a month with the kid's SNAP card. She's upset because her parents can't see her newborn.

I know these articles are supposed to create sympathy for migrants but that's not what's happening.

If you read this and feel differently, please enlighten me. I'd like to feel differently and not look on them as scammers who don't deserve asylum status.

[quote] She's upset because her parents can't see her newborn.

Dry your tears.

Now that she has an anchor baby she can get enough benefits to send her parents bus fare to the border. Then they can get free transport north and lots of other free stuff.

Happy ending for all.

Wow, a whopping $200 a month in Chicago. She’s the problem with America!

R59 where did you get that information? One of my best friends is a public school teacher in Chicago. Her students aren't our best and brightest, but they do all speak English.

If you supplement the 50 a week, which is intended for the kid, with weekly trips to food pantries, they'll be fine.

R85 yeah, ok…

More migrant violence

Chicago police are on the lookout for a newly arrived Venezuelan migrant who is suspected of stabbing another migrant during an argument at a Logan Square laundromat on Sunday afternoon.

A bulletin circulated throughout CPD on Monday said a 25-year-old female migrant from Venezuela was seriously injured when a man stabbed her at Bubbleland, 2249 North Milwaukee, around 6 p.m. The incident is believed to be domestic in nature, the bulletin said.

The woman and a 32-year-old man, also a recent arrival from Venezuela, got into an argument, and the man pulled out a knife, stabbing her several times, police are being told.

The bulletin said that the woman has been living at O’Hare, and the man may be staying with a friend in the 11000 block of South Princeton, at O’Hare, or in any of the 22 CPD district stations that are housing migrants.

Police were told the suspect is about 6 feet tall with short black hair. He is missing two front teeth, has a fresh cut above his right eyebrow, an old cut on his left arm, and a tattoo of a woman on his left upper back.

More migrant fun in Chicago

Seems a bit sadistic to house people from such warm countries in tents in Chicago over the winter. Do the survivors get citizenship?

Great way to save money, just pretend you are a"migrant" , no rent , no utility bills, no health insurance bills. Where was this program when i was young and working mininmum wage .

It’s a joke. There’s nothing more hilarious than people who can’t fend for themselves having tons of babies. Of course capitalists will crawl over themselves like clowns to help people in poverty because they need low-wage workers to exploit. Life is a play consisting of dumb human apes throwing shit at each other, fighting over rotten bananas and occasionally humping.

R92, I do believe I'm going to have the last, wise words of your post made into a needlepoint sampler I can frame and display.

[quote]Life is a play consisting of dumb human apes throwing shit at each other, fighting over rotten bananas and occasionally humping.

The same thing is happening at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. It is in the middle of nowhere and cold and windy in winter.

When we declared ourselves to be Migrant Sanctuaries we never expected we'd have to actually do anything.

St Louis group wants to take Chicago migrants--obviously the ones with skills.

R92 Thank you , i tip my hat !

Constituents in Hispanic ward turn on alderman who supports local encampment of migrants. Alderperson and aide require police escort.

Migrants complain Chicago is cold and dangerous.

[quote] Migrants complain Chicago is cold and dangerous.

No shit, Sherlock.

Go home. Just go back. It’s galling to see them complain.

Black columnist asks Chicago Blacks for greater understanding and sympathy with migrants' plight.

Chicago newspaper documents cost overruns to staffing agency that is racking up millions in overtime pay.

"In one week in early February, the city was billed nearly $460,000 for 50 Favorite Staffing workers at one shelter: a former elementary school in Woodlawn. Of the 50 staffers, 36 listed they worked all seven days that week and 12 hours each day. A third of that shelter’s workers were listed as security guards. Every one of those 13 guards logged at least 20 hours of overtime that week. Most logged 44 hours of overtime, on top of the regular 40 hours that week. That meant the city spent roughly $18,000 a day for security at the shelter — about $11,000 of it for just overtime."

I sure wish I was still Mrs Mayor. There is no limits to this gravy train.

Wait until one of these Venezuelan migrants kills a person. The whole city of Chicago is gonna turn on these people.

Joliet, which is 1/3 Hispanic, withdraws grant application to open migrant center.

R105 nobody gave these young men the memo that shoplifting is only legal as slave reparations for African Americans descending from slaves.

Work hard and move to Naperville, kids!

By the way, winterized tent cities sound olde worlde and even like an "adventure" - but why can't the put up container villages - would be cheaper heat, no?

As my grandad used to say beggars cannot be choosers.In the future they may be Florence Nightingales or great contributors but now they are relying on the kindness of taxpaying strangers and slimy politicians. Entitlement is annoying.

Asian-American residents of Brighton Park, Chicago are furious about illegal migrants coming to their neighborhood

87% of this area voted for Biden in 2020

“Pats, the Mayor of Chicago needs good PR!”

Brighton Park is 80 percent Hispanic.

Asians make up 10 percent.

Same old, same old.

So they'll be uncomfortable.

Fuck 'em! They can always go back to their family homes in MEXICO.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Biden administration to stop cutting razor wire on fences along the southern border in Texas meant to stop illegal migrant crossings.

Judge Alia Moses of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on Monday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop "disassembling, degrading, tampering" miles of razor wire running along the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.

The temporary order is a result of a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, arguing that federal officials said they had the authority to destroy state property "to allow [illegal] aliens to enter & be processed."

[quote]"to allow [illegal] aliens to enter & be processed."

There’s the problem. We need barriers that prevent illegals from entering so that there is no processing.

Trib says Mayor has to sweeten the deal to get neighborhoods to accept migrant camps.

It's COLD in Chicago

The problem is that the US is taking on a huge influx of migrants without any plan on how to deal with them, and no support. In Germany, they at least tried to help some of the migrants assimilate, learn German, etc. and find housing.

Putting poor, desperate people into one area or one building en masse will work about as well as it did pushing all the poor black people into the projects....which is to say NOT AT ALL.

What are they gonna do? Give them the 4 Seasons. I wish I could go to a real first world country.

Chicago will be 10x worse than Detroit soon.

[quote] US is taking on a huge influx of migrants without any plan on how to deal with them, and no support.

Plan. Plan? We don't need no steenkin' plan

Chicago reportedly had snow today. It needs to charter buses and buy plane tickets for people who want a warmer climate. The city should give notice of incoming migrants to the communities where they're relocating. That should happen after the bus or plane is on route.

I recommend Alabama, Arkansas, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and West Virginia, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Chicago police stations and libraries should have brochures on these states available to migrants.

[quote] It needs to charter buses and buy plane tickets for people who want a warmer climate

Chicago is a 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚. Good little progressives can't be hypocrites now and scatter their invitees to places that won't give them as much free stuff now can they. Not as long as Chicago has expensive hotels.

The end of the migrant buses to Chicago is in sight. One snowfall and a migrant used her own money to take a bus backk to Texas.

It's gotten very cold this week in Chicago. Pretty unusual this early. My recollections is that it used to rain on Halloween when I was a kid. I can't even recall people Trick or Treating in the cold. And it snowed too yesterday.

Of course, if Texas has another of those bad winters with no power, the migrants might be heading back south.

R125 I want a warmer climate. Must be nice.

It's sort of cold here in Chicago. But this is nothing compared to how bone chilling cold it gets here in Chicago. The Venezuelans looked all happy and I was happy for them too, frolicking about by the Loop, in front of police stations, or just randomly pop out. But in the back of my mind the thought of the frightening Chicago Winter exposed to the elements would have them wishing they stayed with Hugo Chavez - yeah, I know he's dead but just go along lol. My house is closing next week, and for the first time ever I'm thinking of moving to a warmer climate down south. A poster up thread has a good idea with sending migrants to a city that is located where there's warmer temperatures. They are gonna catch pneumonias being out here so long..... Apparently the Venezuelans like Macy's. Second pair of loser immigrants stealing from the same store in as many weeks.

They were denied pretrial release, which is odd. If they're convicted, send them back.

Block Club Chicago does a sympathetic piece about Venezuelan asylum seekers who are coping with the cold, haven't made it into the shelter system and are now living in police stations, Ohare and homelessl camp sites. Alderman are "squabbling" about setting up city campsites, a term usually applied to children.

Folks, what did you expect would happen?

[quote] Apparently the Venezuelans like Macy's. Second pair of loser immigrants stealing from the same store in as many weeks.

A new National Retail Federation study finds that Chicago now ranks among the worst cities in the country for retail thefts at a time when robberies have also skyrocketed across the region.

With retail theft numbers in big cities from Los Angeles to New York and Atlanta on the upswing, researchers say that retail crime is now sharply on the rise across the country, costing businesses that took part in the Retail Security Survey upwards of $112 billion in losses in 2022. Most of that comes in the area of external thefts, which include merchandise lifted by organized theft rings.

“We’re not surprised. We’ve been focused on the trend in Chicago for quite some time,” Illinois Retail Merchants Association CEO Rob Karr told The Center Square. “I think in part what’s fueling it is that there is a practice and a message that it’s not taken seriously here in Chicago, that retail theft is not a serious crime, and it is a victimless crime, both of which are complete falsehoods.”

On the robbery front, a recent WBEZ analysis of the city’s Violence Reduction Dashboard finds that reported victimizations across the city are at a six-year high and up 43% compared to the same time last year.

Next, a kid will die of the cold. Chicago weather is nothing to trifle.

Some migrants are going back to Venezuela because Chicago disappointed them. Catholic Charities of Ilinois has bought 2,000 bus tickets to leave the state.

"Castejon said that despite the dangerous trek to get here — often begging for money and sleeping in the streets to cross several borders — the journey had not been worth it."

"The family was first taken to the 1st District police station where they stayed for a couple weeks before getting transferred to Wright College with hundreds of other asylum-seekers. The family lived there for about a month before moving into a house with another migrant who was renting an apartment through a city voucher program that offers up to $15,000 for up to six months of rental assistance.

But when rental assistance vanished, neither could afford rent, so they were once again homeless, the father said.

They eventually met someone who offered to rent them an apartment for $750. They managed to afford it because Castejon had found a job in construction, where he was getting paid in cash. But the work was heavy and the pay was not enough, he said, so he left."

Enjoy Caracas.

I’ve known a lot Filipinos who’ve moved to North America and ended up in cold cities and it sounds like it was hell for them but they adjusted. They’d wear like four layers in the winter and one woman told me she’s gotten used to never being warm. Of course they were t living in tents so things were easier for them.I don’t think anybody who’s leave because of winter is that desperate to change their circumstances. I don’t know if some of the people who’ve come aren’t as desperate as others .

Johnson has realized he can't spend his entire budget on migrants. No more housing subsidies. Two-month limit to shelter stays. Hefty fines for bus companies that don't drop off migrants at specified times and places. More publicity in Texas about migrants can expect in Chicago, which is considerably less than six months ago. Status of winterized tents is up in the air.

One of the tent sites is polluted with industrial waste. The city promises a quick clean-up before outfitting the site with tents. Those immigrants will end up owning the city after the lawsuits.

New population dislikes shelters because they're not hotel rooms, prefers living in shacks they assemble and getting stuff for free.