Editorial: Spiraling migrant crisis, not Gaza, needs full City Council attention
Even as news broke about a 5-year-old boy, Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, dying at a Pilsen shelter, the City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Relations spent hours Monday listening to a dozen carefully chosen speakers all calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. What will be the impact of that resolution, should it pass the full council, on the actions of either Hamas or Israel? Zero. We, too, ...