The city estimates that costs associated with migrants since August 2022 could reach above $360 million by the end of 2023. Faith-based groups are pooling their resources. But no volunteers are currently allowed inside city-run shelters, and questions remain about what will happen as winter approaches and thousands of migrants with no place to go are now sleeping outside.
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“Migrants” are people who have left their countries of origin by choice in search of a better opportunity, while immigrants are people who leave a country with the intention of taking up permanent residence. Most migrants arriving in Chicago are asylum-seekers, or people in search of protection due to dangers in their home country.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
When will this tired crap stop, ugh. ” ” emphasis, mine