City Council Approves $51 Million In Funding To Support Migrants After Dramatic Vote Tyrone Muhammad gets removed for city council meeting telling Brandon Johnson he needs to take care of black communities too …Chicago City Council Approves $51 Million In Funding To Support Migrants After Dramatic Vote … Tyrone Muhammad from www.eccsc.org gets removed from city council meeting telling Mayor Brandon Johnson he needs to take care of black communities too … The $51 million in funds is intended for staffing, food, transportation and legal services at temporary shelters. Madison Savedra 1:02 PM CDT on May 31, 2023 A South Shore resident speaks on the migrant crisis at the first City Council meeting where Mayor Brandon Johnson presided over, on May 24, 2023.Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago CITY HALL — City funding to help newly arrived migrants passed City Council after a contentious meeting Wednesday afternoon. The 34-13 vote came after three aldermen blocked a vote on the funding last week — and amid an intense, hour-long debate that saw an alderperson cry and Mayor Brandon Johnson having to call for order be restored. The $51 million in funds is intended for staffing, food, transportation and legal services at temporary shelters. The measure passed a City Council committee earlier this month, the same day former Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared a state of emergency as the city struggled to keep up with the housing needs of migrants. The push for more funding comes as Chicago faces a “humanitarian crisis” due to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sending Central and South American migrants here, pushing the city’s shelter system to its limit. Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping at police stations in recent weeks while the city has been trying to find large facilities to turn into shelters and respite centers, such as park facilities. City officials have said nearly 9,000 migrants have arrived since August, with about 700 arriving daily. The city has only received about $10 million from the federal government, despite requesting much more, officials have said. About $30 million has been granted from the state, including $20 million that was the subject of intense debate at a previous City Council meeting. How each alderperson voted during Wednesday vote to allocate $51 million in surplus funds to supporting migrants. Many aldermen with the Latino Caucus — including Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th), Mike Rodriguez (22nd), Andre Vasquez (40th), Jeylu Gutierrez (14th) and Jessie Fuentes (26th) — spoke strongly in favor of the funding. One of the city’s temporary respite centers is at Piotrowski Park in Little Village, which is located in Rodriguez’s ward. He said he’s been heartened to see his neighbors providing hot meals and showers to hundreds of migrants in police stations and shelters. “We have enough, we live in abundance as a city,” he said. “This [funding] will help us continue this work.” Vasquez, another supporter of the funding, said the city also needs a longterm revenue plan. He said City Council isn’t “pointing the finger at who we need to be pointing the finger at.” “The federal government hasn’t provided the amount of funds our city needs to deal with the situation, nor has the state,” he said. “When we ask for funding and get a fraction of what we’re asking for, that puts us in a situation where we’re fighting amongst ourselves.” Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th), one of the most outspoken critics of the city’s management of the migrant crisis, said she’s received calls from constituents telling her to support and push back against the ordinance. Taylor said she was conflicted between standing with Black Chicagoans, who need more support from the city, and migrant families. “It ain’t our responsibility to take care of everyone else,” she said as she wept. “I know in my heart what’s right … but when the hell are y’all going to help us?” Taylor ultimately voted for the ordinance, saying, “Hurt people don’t hurt people.” Ald. Ray Lopez (15th), one of the aldermen who delayed the vote on the matter last week, said he’s against the additional funding because he wants to know where the money that’s already been spent has gone and how new money would be spent. Lopez said the city has used $112 million since migrants began arriving in August “This is a question every single one of us should be asking,” Lopez said. “Where did the money go? Where is $51 million going that’s going to last us only until the end of next month? And what happens July 1 when we’re broke again?” Ald. David Moore (17th), another South Side alderman, encouraged his colleagues to vote no on the ordinance, saying the city should prioritize helping current residents. “People keep saying there’s enough to go around. … So if there’s enough to go around, then let’s pass an ordinance where we see the enough,” he said. “We have to help the residents of this great city.” Moore was joined by several other alderpeople on the South and Northwest Sides in voting against the funding. City Council Votes to Spend $51 Million for City Asylum Seekers by Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor May 31, 2023 The City Council voted 34-13 for $51 million in emergency services and housing to be disbursed for asylum seekers in Chicago. But it was not without great consternation and tension from gallery members at the city council. Since the first bus arrived in August, more than 8,000 women, men and children have come to Chicago. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has overseen the shipping of these asylum seekers from Southern border towns to Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. $51M from the city’s 2021 budget surplus Here in the city, the influx of these persons has triggered a humanitarian crisis. Furious debates among city residents have flared up over housing asylum seekers in their communities. In early May, a group of South Shore residents vehemently opposed a plan to open up the first floor of a former high school in their community to them. But, last week, the city opened Wilbur Wright College on the Northwest side to house 300 asylum seekers. A popular sentiment among people who oppose providing emergency housing to these new arrivals is what the city does for existing homeless people and struggling residents. That sentiment and more were expressed during a spirited Wednesday city council meeting with people opposed to the ordinance chanting, “No justice, no peace.” Before the vote, city alderpersons voiced their opinions on the ordinance. “The soul of Chicago is somewhat on trial,” said Ald. David Moore, who opposed the ordinance. “Make sure you put your mask on first before you help someone else. And so we have to put our mask on first, and we have to help the residents of this city.” Sources for Report I've been put out of better places. $51 Million wow! TYRONEMUHAMMAD.COM https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=823728585775506&id=100014814334033&mibextid=Nif5oz City Council Votes to Spend $51 Million for City Asylum Seekers by Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor May 31, 2023 https://chicagodefender.com/city-council-votes-to-spend-51-million-for-city-asylum-seekers/#:~:text=The%20City%20Council%20voted%2034,members%20at%20the%20city%20council. City Council Approves $51 Million In Funding To Support Migrants After Dramatic Vote by Madison Savedra 1:02 PM CDT on May 31, 2023 https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/05/31/city-council-approves-51-million-in-funding-to-support-migrants-after-dramatic-vote/
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Chicago City Council Approves $51 Million In Funding To Support Migrants After Dramatic Vote … Tyrone Muhammad from www.eccsc.org gets removed from city council meeting telling Mayor Brandon Johnson he needs to take care of black communities too …
The $51 million in funds is intended for staffing, food, transportation and legal services at temporary shelters.
Madison Savedra
CITY HALL — City funding to help newly arrived migrants passed City Council after a contentious meeting Wednesday afternoon.
The 34-13 vote came after three aldermen blocked a vote on the funding last week — and amid an intense, hour-long debate that saw an alderperson cry and Mayor Brandon Johnson having to call for order be restored.
The $51 million in funds is intended for staffing, food, transportation and legal services at temporary shelters. The measure passed a City Council committee earlier this month, the same day former Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared a state of emergency as the city struggled to keep up with the housing needs of migrants.
The push for more funding comes as Chicago faces a “humanitarian crisis” due to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sending Central and South American migrants here, pushing the city’s shelter system to its limit. Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping at police stations in recent weeks while the city has been trying to find large facilities to turn into shelters and respite centers, such as park facilities.
City officials have said nearly 9,000 migrants have arrived since August, with about 700 arriving daily.
The city has only received about $10 million from the federal government, despite requesting much more, officials have said. About $30 million has been granted from the state, including $20 million that was the subject of intense debate at a previous City Council meeting.
How each alderperson voted during Wednesday vote to allocate $51 million in surplus funds to supporting migrants.
Many aldermen with the Latino Caucus — including Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th), Mike Rodriguez (22nd), Andre Vasquez (40th), Jeylu Gutierrez (14th) and Jessie Fuentes (26th) — spoke strongly in favor of the funding.
One of the city’s temporary respite centers is at Piotrowski Park in Little Village, which is located in Rodriguez’s ward. He said he’s been heartened to see his neighbors providing hot meals and showers to hundreds of migrants in police stations and shelters.
“We have enough, we live in abundance as a city,” he said. “This [funding] will help us continue this work.”
Vasquez, another supporter of the funding, said the city also needs a longterm revenue plan. He said City Council isn’t “pointing the finger at who we need to be pointing the finger at.”
“The federal government hasn’t provided the amount of funds our city needs to deal with the situation, nor has the state,” he said. “When we ask for funding and get a fraction of what we’re asking for, that puts us in a situation where we’re fighting amongst ourselves.”
Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th), one of the most outspoken critics of the city’s management of the migrant crisis, said she’s received calls from constituents telling her to support and push back against the ordinance.
Taylor said she was conflicted between standing with Black Chicagoans, who need more support from the city, and migrant families.
“It ain’t our responsibility to take care of everyone else,” she said as she wept. “I know in my heart what’s right … but when the hell are y’all going to help us?”
Taylor ultimately voted for the ordinance, saying, “Hurt people don’t hurt people.”
Ald. Ray Lopez (15th), one of the aldermen who delayed the vote on the matter last week, said he’s against the additional funding because he wants to know where the money that’s already been spent has gone and how new money would be spent.
Lopez said the city has used $112 million since migrants began arriving in August
“This is a question every single one of us should be asking,” Lopez said. “Where did the money go? Where is $51 million going that’s going to last us only until the end of next month? And what happens July 1 when we’re broke again?”
Ald. David Moore (17th), another South Side alderman, encouraged his colleagues to vote no on the ordinance, saying the city should prioritize helping current residents.
“People keep saying there’s enough to go around. … So if there’s enough to go around, then let’s pass an ordinance where we see the enough,” he said. “We have to help the residents of this great city.”
Moore was joined by several other alderpeople on the South and Northwest Sides in voting against the funding.
City Council Votes to Spend $51 Million for City Asylum Seekers
by Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor
May 31, 2023
The City Council voted 34-13 for $51 million in emergency services and housing to be disbursed for asylum seekers in Chicago. But it was not without great consternation and tension from gallery members at the city council.
Since the first bus arrived in August, more than 8,000 women, men and children have come to Chicago. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has overseen the shipping of these asylum seekers from Southern border towns to Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.
$51M from the city’s 2021 budget surplus
Here in the city, the influx of these persons has triggered a humanitarian crisis. Furious debates among city residents have flared up over housing asylum seekers in their communities.
In early May, a group of South Shore residents vehemently opposed a plan to open up the first floor of a former high school in their community to them. But, last week, the city opened Wilbur Wright College on the Northwest side to house 300 asylum seekers.
A popular sentiment among people who oppose providing emergency housing to these new arrivals is what the city does for existing homeless people and struggling residents.
That sentiment and more were expressed during a spirited Wednesday city council meeting with people opposed to the ordinance chanting, “No justice, no peace.”
Before the vote, city alderpersons voiced their opinions on the ordinance.
“The soul of Chicago is somewhat on trial,” said Ald. David Moore, who opposed the ordinance. “Make sure you put your mask on first before you help someone else. And so we have to put our mask on first, and we have to help the residents of this city.”
Sources for Report
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City Council Votes to Spend $51 Million for City Asylum Seekers by Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor
May 31, 2023 https://chicagodefender.com/city-council-votes-to-spend-51-million-for-city-asylum-seekers/
City Council Approves $51 Million In Funding To Support Migrants After Dramatic Vote by Madison Savedra 1:02 PM CDT on May 31, 2023
https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/05/31/city-council-approves-51-million-in-funding-to-support-migrants-after-dramatic-vote/
