Chicago Officials Renew Plea for Help from Federal Government as Decision on ‘Base Camp’ Looms – WTTW (Chicago)

Cristina Pacione Zayas, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first deputy chief of staff, said city officials were pleased that President Joe Biden had sent a request to Congress for an additional $1.4 billion for state and local governments providing food, shelter and medical care to the migrants. But the need will be closer to $5 billion, Pacione Zayas said, and Chicago officials will work to get as much of those funds as possible.
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FJB
2 years ago

Quit with the no bid contracts signed behind closed doors and the city will need half of what it’s asking for.

Where's Mine ???
2 years ago

This is the second WTTW/ Heather Cherone piece on Brighton Park migrant tent camp community meeting where she states meeting “was starkly divided along racial lines”. with Asians in opposition and I assume she’s implying Latinos are in favor? And then she states that city head of migrant mess Zayas agrees. Pacione Zayas acknowledged that the crowd at Tuesday’s community meeting about the base camp was starkly divided along racial lines, with many of the most vehement and emotional pleas to scrap the plan coming from Asian Chicagoans. Some Asian Chicagoans briefly chanted “send them back” as officials spoke about… Read more »

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David Hardy
2 years ago

Did you see all the folks they locked out? It’s shocking what they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCkXwcVtgmc

debtsor
2 years ago

Even the kids shows on WTTW push gay marriage, trans this and trans that, BIPOC ethnocentrism. It’s all trash.

Ex Illini
2 years ago

Joe can send out requests for more illegal migrant money all day long. The House would be crazy to give him a dime until he closes the border.

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