Woodlawn residents spoke out Thursday about a Chicago proposal to house migrants from the Texas border at a vacant Chicago Public School building.
"We’re struggling right now to make Woodlawn an affordable, mixed-income community. While I would love to help immigrants and everybody else, I’d like to help my own first," said Jeane Clark
The move-in was initially scheduled for as early as Friday but Taylor's office confirmed the opening of the location has been postponed indefinitely. As a "sanctuary city", Chicago shields undocumented migrants from federal immigration enforcement and welcomes people regardless of their immigration status.Nearly 4,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since Aug. 31, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began bussing them to Democratic-led cities to protest federal immigration policies. Lightfoot previously visited Washington, D.C., and requested support from President Biden to assist her city in handling the surge of migrants.
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