Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso called dozens of migrant families being transported from a shelter in Chicago to a hotel in the western suburb “abysmal government coordination.”
Migrants from Venezuela relax outside of the Hampton Inn & Suites in suburban Burr Ridge on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022.
Over the last week, hundreds of individuals and families were bused to Chicago from Texas as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to send asylum-seekers to sanctuary cities. The first group of migrants arrived at Chicago’s Union Station on Aug. 31 in two buses carrying dozens each.Another bus of migrants arrived in Chicago last weekend with more than 50 people looking for housing, employment, and a better future.
Earlier this year, Burr Ridge hosted asylum-seeking refugees from Afghanistan who have now found permanent housing and employment, according to Grasso. Those families also stayed at Hampton Inn & Suites, he said. “We’re not told that somebody is having a wedding, but we’re generally told when a major event is happening in our village,” Grasso said. “I didn’t know if we were going to need more police, I didn’t know if the restaurants needed more staffing — I didn’t know the scale of this.”
In a news release Thursday, Grasso listed several things he wanted residents to be aware of, including that refugees received health screening at the border and those who required isolation were taken to a public health shelter outside of Burr Ridge.
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