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Migrants who arrive in the United States face many barriers to staying, including how to find a job and support themselves. As Oak Park grapples with housing roughly 160 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, who came to the village at the end of last October, and setting them up for a new start, questions abound.
Ald. Anthony Beale’s proposed referendum would have asked voters in the March 19 primary: “Should the city of Chicago limit its designation as a sanctuary city by placing spending limits on its public funding?”
Mayor Brandon Johnson and his City Council allies on Thursday used a parliamentary maneuver to squelch an advisory referendum that would have allowed Chicago voters to weigh in on whether Chicago should remain a sanctuary city.
After the Way Forward Act banned ICE from detaining undocumented people in state jails last year, the agency began detaining undocumented Illinois residents in Wisconsin and other states.