Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is asking Illinois state legislators for $54 million to help fund emergency services to migrant and asylum-seeking individuals and migrants.
Migrants from the Texas border arrive in a chartered bus on Oct. 14, 2022, at Chicago’s Union Station. They were transferred to CTA buses.
“The city is grateful to the state of Illinois for its partnership and collaboration on this mission to date, but we are simply unable to provide migrant services at today’s levels after February 1, 2023 if the state withdraws its financial support,” Lightfoot wrote in the letter, dated Dec. 29.“As a Chicago Delegation Member, I respectfully request you to advocate for $53.
The city has seen an uptick in migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and various African countries, and has also received “an unusually large numbers of migrants who have been compelled to leave Texas by bus transport,” Lightfoot wrote. Chicago has 1,531 migrants in its care, she wrote, and is running 11 alternate shelters that provide meals, clothing, and showers.
She said the city has made its own “multimillion-dollar investment” in help for migrants; “however, these funds without state assistance will not be nearly sufficient to address this ongoing need.”
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