<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing pushback from members of the city council over his plan to house <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration">migrants</a> in tents across the city.</p>
<p>The mayor asked all 50 city council members to find two acres in their wards for a large tent that could house 200 migrants. The tents would be rigged with heat and cooling units, cots, a mess hall, and water hookups.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve looked in my ward. I just don&#8217;t have any available space. I have one of the most dense wards in the city,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/amp/migrants-chicago-news-brandon-johnson-tent-cities/13769003/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Alderman Brian Hopkins, whose ward includes parts of downtown, ABC7 reported.</p>
<p>Another council member, Alderman David Moore, said several vacant lots on the South Side should be set up for Chicago residents, not new migrants.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a believer in help your people first, help yourselves first, help your community first. And then, reach out and help others,&#8221; Moore said.</p>
<p>However, many migrants have been sheltering at police stations, and Hopkins said a tent could be an improvement.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to get those human beings out of those inhumane conditions right now, and clearly, a tent with some type of secure facility is a slight improvement over what they are currently living in,&#8221; Hopkins said.</p>
<p>Migrants are also sleeping at O’Hare Airport.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think what should be made clear is because of the scale we are looking at, everyone needs to share in the responsibility,&#8221; said Alderman Andre Vasquez, who chairs Chicago&#8217;s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee.</p>
<p>Vasquez suggested that later, the tents could be used for Chicago&#8217;s homeless.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you can make that case, then you can say this isn&#8217;t just for one population. It&#8217;s something that helps the whole city out,&#8221; Vasquez said.</p>
<p>Chicago has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/gop-migrants-blue-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen</a> an influx of about 13,500 migrants recently. The country&#8217;s third-largest city has already spent at least $250 million on the issue.</p>
<p>The situation has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/gop-migrants-blue-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">angered</a> Chicago residents, particularly those on the South Side, who have complained about the city&#8217;s money being spent on migrants rather than on their communities.</p>
<p>In the meantime, Chicago leaders have been begging the federal government for help with the migrant crisis.</p>
<p>“Let me state this clearly: the city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes,” Johnson <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/mayor-brandon-johnson-warns-city-214500144.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in late August.</p>
<p>The federal government has already given Chicago and Illinois <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/5/5/23713285/chicago-state-of-illinois-get-8-5-million-in-federal-migrant-grants-asked-for-up-to-191-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least</a> $8.5 million for the migrant crisis.</p>
<p>Vice President Kamala Harris was set to visit Chicago on Wednesday for a campaign event, and city council members have <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/amp/migrants-chicago-news-brandon-johnson-tent-cities/13769003/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on her to visit the police stations crowded with migrants while she is there.</p>
<p>New York City is struggling to metabolize more than 110,000 migrants who have streamed into the city since last summer.</p>
<p>The city set up tent shelters for migrants last year but ran into issues <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/heres-what-we-know-about-mayor-brandon-johnsons-plan-to-set-up-migrant-base-camps/de02d287-dbf9-471d-8f2b-fef98f758d24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> flooding in one of those shelters.</p>
<p>Some council members wonder how long the city can sustain so many new migrants coming in.</p>
<p>“Is there a point that we say enough like the New York mayor did?” Alderman David Moore <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/heres-what-we-know-about-mayor-brandon-johnsons-plan-to-set-up-migrant-base-camps/de02d287-dbf9-471d-8f2b-fef98f758d24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this week. “Or is that not an option?”</p>

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