The city of Chicago has become so overwhelmed with illegal border crossers that some of them are now living in police stations, sleeping on the floor.
Is this compassionate, or sustainable for that matter?
Townhall reports:
Chicago Police Stations Are Now Turning Into Homeless Camps for MigrantsPolice stations in Chicago are now having to become homeless shelters for processed and released migrants who made it to the city due to the lack of space as a result of the growing number of people coming from the U.S.-Mexico border.Pictures on Twitter shows the lobbies of the police stations full of people sleeping on the ground.
Here’s a local video report:
According to FOX 32 in Chicago, the situation is not sanitary:
Expired food, infections, infestations reported at CPD stations serving as makeshift shelters for immigrantsChicago’s response to a growing immigrant crisis has turned police stations into makeshift shelters where asylum seekers have been provided with expired meal rations and where infections and infestations are a common problem.Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken aim at Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas who has been sending immigrants to Chicago and other sanctuary cities as a response to President Joe Biden’s border policies. In an open letter Sunday, Lightfoot told Abbott that her administration was aware he planned to resume busing immigrants to Chicago and other cities on Monday, noting that 8,000 have already been sent here since August.”Nearly all the migrants have been in dire need of food, water and clothing, and many needed extensive medical care,” she wrote. “Some of the individuals you placed on buses were women in active labor, and some were victims of sexual assault. None of these urgent needs were addressed in Texas.”But with resources exhausted and limited shelter beds available in Chicago, immigrants who have been sent here have been sleeping and eating meals on the floors of police stations in recent weeks…John Catanzara, the fiery president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, said bed bugs have been “a consistent issue.” There also has been a lice problem at the Near West District and cases of chicken pox at the Shakespeare District, according to Catanzara, who said it’s “improper” to use police buildings and resources to house immigrants.
This will be part of Biden’s legacy, and he will not be remembered well for it.
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