A chance to unite Chicago communities around helping migrants is being squandered by sinking into crisis mentality.
Carlos Ramirez sleeps next to his wife, Betzabeth Bracho, in the lobby of a Chicago police station on June 22, 2023. The two traveled from Venezuela seeking asylum and have been staying at the police station since arriving in Chicago in May.
We don’t know how rough a winter we will experience, but what is well known is that Chicago’s shelters are already overtaxed, housing 6,500 migrants of the more than 14,000 who have arrived in our city. Not only are hallways and cafeterias already filled, but so, too, are many police stations and our airports.We fear what will happen when, come the first freeze, many of our city’s people without stable housing arrive at shelter doors.
Intentional or not, our city has a history of making our minority communities feel like they are fighting over crumbs. Different communities, caucuses and coalitions rise up to argue for their critical needs. Different politicians pause over difficult choices about which initiatives to fund and which to postpone. There are winners, and there are losers. In our current system, communities need to fight against each other if they want to win. That’s how the systems seems to be established.
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