Black residents slammed the Chicago City Council shortly before it voted to spend $51 million on housing migrants who were shipped to the Windy City from the southern border.
"We didn’t have the luxury or the opportunity to cross the border," Smith continued."We didn’t have the privilege to cross the border. We came over here being raped, stolen, beaten, chained in the bottom of ships, and you give migrants $51 million? Have you forgot who you are?"
"People keep saying there’s enough to go around, I’ve heard [that] over and over. If that’s true, then let’s pay us an ordinance where we see the enough," Chicago Alderman David Moore said while objecting to the measure. He explained that, similar to a flight attendant asking passengers to put oxygen masks on themselves before they help others, the city needs to help Black people first.
Photos taken by Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez last month show migrants taking shelter on the floors of restrooms in public buildings. Some speakers did support the migrant funding, but most were consistently heckled by other residents in the room. At one point, newly elected Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the crowd to"restore order" and asked for a break of a few minutes for his constituents to calm down.
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