CHICAGO MIGRANT CRISIS: MAYOR ORDERS HIRING FREEZE TO ADDRESS BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT

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Chicago is going to dump these people into the West and South Suburbs. They already are. This year my school district which is 30+ minutes out of the city had to approve a certified bilingual ELA teacher due to the influx of migrants. Parents and kids are pulling up to public schools that don't speak any English, registering at schools that don't have the adequate staff to serve them.

This also impacts the school's performance because the standardized tests are essentially in English. So without additional support many schools accepting these kids are going to get fukked for bad test scores.
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I saw this coming from MILES away 😂

This is what happens when someone who is an idealist becomes a leader. Someone who hasn't executed action at this level. Constituents need to understand that with Politicians, you need people in place who have executed macro tasks. Not someone that is only good a planning, theory and ideas. All of that means NOTHING without action

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Chicago migrants: Brandon Johnson meets with 25 suburban mayors to discuss crisis

Brandon Johnson is discussing the migrant crisis with 25 suburban mayors in a special meeting on Monday.
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Chicago City Council members have been pushing for municipalities to help share the burden. Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso said mayors have several questions for Johnson.

"I think all mayors want to be sure that their residents are safe and the migrants are safe, and that we have an understanding of how the process is going to work when migrants come," Grasso said.

While the city has no plans to open up new shelters any time soon, the state has allocated an extra $160 million to help, but Gov. JB Pritzker said he is waiting on the city for a plan.

"The city has not told the state where they would like us to put our resources to build new shelters or help them build new shelters, so we can't help if we can't identify those locations," Pritzker said.

Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor and others are concerned about how the city can continue to financially support the crisis.

"We don't have it, we can't continue to rob Peter to pay Paul to fix a crisis we didn't create," Taylor said.
 
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Illinois Pol Used Immigrants as Props, Got in Trouble When People Thought He Was Being Compassionate

Josh McBroom tried to pull off an anti-immigrant stunt—but it backfired when people thought he was genuinely showing some compassion.
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Illinois City Councilman Tried To Use Immigrants as Props—and Got in Trouble When People Thought He Was Being Compassionate​

By Julia Glassman Jan 26th, 2024, 10:03 am

City councilman Josh McBroom speaks from the council dais at a January 16 meeting.

In the latest right-wing attack on immigrants, a city councilman in Illinois tried to pull off an anti-immigrant stunt—but it backfired when people thought he was genuinely showing some compassion.

For years, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have been sending immigrants out of their home states into more progressive parts of the country, including Martha’s Vineyard and Kamala Harris’ house. They’ve been doing so to try to reveal the supposed hypocrisy of progressives, whom they insist would ignore the migrant crisis if real people in need of shelter showed up on their doorsteps. The stunts have been roundly condemned on the left as cruel, inhumane attempts to use real people as political props.

Despite Abbott’s and DeSantis’ noxious motives, progressive communities have stepped up and provided aid and shelter to the immigrants, prompting Abbott to repeat the stunt again and again. According to The Independent, Abbott has sent 600 buses and 30,000 people to Chicago and surrounding areas since 2022.

In the Chicago suburb of Naperville, city councilman Josh McBroom recently tried to piggyback on Abbott’s stunts by asking town residents to host immigrants in their homes. During a January 16 council meeting, McBroom asked the rest of the council to put together a signup sheet that potential hosts could add their names to. “I’m hearing stories about little kids at train stations without coats on,” McBroom said at the meeting, adding that be believes Naperville is “a compassionate community.”

However, McBroom was shamed online by his right-wing constituents, some of whom believed that he was genuinely asking them to help people in need and reacted, predictably, in the way they (incorrectly) claimed the left would. McBroom has since tried to clarify that his suggestion was a stunt, blaming the press for mischaracterizing it as genuine. However, if you watch the video of the meeting (skip to the “new business” segment around the one hour mark), it’s hard to tell whether he’s serious or not—especially since it’s hard to understand why a councilman would take up valuable meeting time with empty snarking. Now, McBroom is left to deal with the fallout from what he seems to have thought would be a slam dunk against progressives.

Maybe, in order to avoid future mishaps like this one, Republicans could try governing instead of using their positions for racist stunts.

(featured image: Naperville City Council)




 
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