Where Will Migrants Go When Their 60-Day Shelter Stays Expire? Volunteers Blast City’s ‘Reckless’ Process – Block Club Chicago

In the absence of a coherent city plan, volunteers helped migrants find work or enroll their kids in schools around the police station they were placed in. It’s a challenge to be told with one day’s notice they could be moved to a completely different side of the city, said Groth Searle said, of the neighborhood group Southwest Collective. Even though the conditions at the police stations are egregious, “it is some stability."
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Dorf
2 years ago

They can head south back home.

Old Joe
2 years ago

To the nearest Hyatt!

Ataraxis
2 years ago

Central and South America?

Riverbender
2 years ago

Well if their time is up in shelter A can’t they just go to
shelter B using a new name if necessary? It is not like they are required to have IDs etc when they cross the border.

Richard in Dallas ex Evanston
2 years ago

the room temperature IQ volunteers should house the migrants in their own houses.

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