"We have gotten to the point where we don’t even have enough shelter beds, even though we are opening a shelter every six days, we just can’t get in front of it," said Cristina Pacione-Zayas, the mayor's deputy chief of staff. That $150 million in the 2024 budget proposal comes on top of what has already been spent by the city since migrants started arriving in August 2022.
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.
Pritzker and BJ are both throwing citizens/taxpayers under the bus, to lavish on illegals and asylum fraudsters