GardaWorld has run into controversies related to its handling of asylum-seekers elsewhere in the U.S.
Most of Chicago’s 14,000 migrants who have arrived to seek asylum since August 2022 have come from Texas, some under the direction of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. But DeSantis has been eager to make flashy moves with the migrants who have crossed the U.S. southern border as well, sending planes to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and California, to swift condemnation from Democratic leaders.
Although the state hasn’t paid GardaWorld much yet out of the contract, correspondence between Johnson and Pritzker’s administrations, including from Ponce de León, show that both were aware of the negative press GardaWorld has incurred. The department signed another contract for up to $9.5 million with GardaWorld in August for “services related to an emergency shelter for asylum seekers including set-up/tear-down, equipment/internet installation, personnel, etc.”
“The fact that they’re kind of looking at it from this kind of detention lens isn’t something I believe we should be moving forward with,” Vasquez said when presented with the GardaWorld contract and related migrant dealings. “Again, I understand the need to figure out a solution in the short-term. Seeing the information, unless I get more, this does not appear to be it.
The contract lays out separate tents for operations staff and medically “isolated patients” who would be placed elsewhere in the base camp, in addition to other facilities for kitchens and bathrooms. The latter would be broken into trailers for toilets and urinals, an eight-head shower station, laundry and sinks.
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