Chicago officials said the city has welcomed a bus full of migrants nearly every day since the beginning of July. In all, more than 12,000 people have arrived in the city since last August, mostly from Central and South America.
Chicago officials said the city has welcomed a bus full of migrants nearly every day since the beginning of July.
In all, more than 12,000 people have arrived in the city since last August, mostly from Central and South America.Meanwhile, hundreds of migrant men, women and children continue to sleep on police station floors, despite efforts to move them into shelters. “The timeline is now,” said Beatriz Ponce de León, Chicago’s deputy mayor of immigrant, migrant and refugee rights. “We are working diligently across the city to expand our shelters, looking first and foremost at our city-owned properties and then also creating new opportunities. We know that the police stations are a temporary place.
“It’s been about one bus a day since July,” she said. “So on any given bus, we have 40 to 50 individuals. Some are singles, many are families, and as soon as they arrive, we move them into our police stations and then as quickly as we can, we move them into our shelters. We’ve vetted over 200 locations for possible shelters, again, focusing first on our city-owned properties but also looking to potentially lease or purchase properties.
Prior to this newly created role, Ponce de León worked for the Illinois Department of Human Services.
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