Chicagoans on Wednesday criticized city officials over the immigration crisis, according to Fox News.
Local and state officials have approved hundreds of millions of dollars to help more than 35,000 migrants who have been deported to the Windy City, Fox News reported. report. Residents voiced their opposition to the influx at city council meetings. (Related article: “These people are drugs'': Chicago criticized on social media for passing resolution supporting ceasefire in Gaza)
“All this lies about asylum applications, all this about refugees, no, no, no. What's going on is they're dumping the dregs of prison into the United States and into our communities. '' one resident said, FOX News reported. “They're messing up our country. We feel a certain way about it because it's our country. They don't deserve to be there, so we're throwing them We’re going to remove them from the community.”
“If the crisis is this bad, council members who are this concerned should donate their salaries like real public servants,” another resident said, according to the newspaper.
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Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has asked the state Legislature to provide $182 million in funding to help Chicago cope with the influx of immigrants, the State Register-Journal reported. report.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) report Since the start of fiscal year 2021, more than 6.6 million people have encountered illegal immigrants.
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