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Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, asked residents to step up on both fronts as cooler weather hits Chicago and the influx of asylum-seekers continues.
People seeking asylum have been placed at more than a dozen police districts around the city, sleeping in the lobbies and waiting often with children for days.
Hundreds of illegal immigrants bused and flown to Chicago have been living in the city s police stations, sleeping in lobbies and waiting, with children, for days, creating unsafe conditions and outpacing the city s ability to find adequate housing for them.
Migrants overwhelming the city’s social services have been living at police stations while awaiting placement at shelters, raising health and humanitarian concerns among police and community organizations.
More than 6,000 migrants have come to the city since last fall, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began sending busloads of migrants to Chicago to protest the influx in his state.