Demonstrators spar with Chicago officials over where to house migrants – FOX32 (Chicago)

A group lead by Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez has identified four unused buildings at Daley College that could house up to 600 migrants. But their announcement was interrupted by members of a group called Ex Cons for Community and Social Change, who said homeless Chicagoans, especially Black residents, are being ignored: "They use us to fill prisons and graveyards."
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Riverbender
2 years ago

Unfortunately for the blacks they are no longer needed by the Democrats who now focus on the immigrants that are quite often Hispanic. Sorry folks but methinks you were used.

Mary Ladd
2 years ago

My first choice is deportation (and I do not mean back to Texas). Second choice is any building in a neighborhood that voted for Johnson, which includes Daley College.

debtsor
2 years ago

“They use us to fill prisons and graveyards.”

Yet, when election time comes, you vote for the same Democrats who’ve done nothing for you for 100 years. Citizenship is not a spectator sport.

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