<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago&#8217;s</a> plan to house illegal migrants in a field house at a local park would kick out a youth football team, according to angry residents.</p>
<p>On Monday, Alderman Chris Taliaferro <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/chicago-youth-football-team-protest-citys-plan-house-migrants-threatens-displace-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was informed that the city plans to house about 200 migrants in the Amundsen Park field house in northwest Chicago.</p>
<p>The migrants will arrive by Saturday, Taliaferro said, and football and baseball games would be moved to other areas, Block Club Chicago <a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/04/amundsen-park-migrant-shelter-plans-have-austin-residents-on-edge-its-like-nobody-is-fighting-for-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p>Taliaferro said he immediately informed city officials that he &#8220;strongly opposed the proposal and that this would adversely impact the neighborhood and park programming.&#8221;</p>
<p>The coach of the Windy City Dolphins Youth Football League, which uses the park, objected to the migrant housing plan as well.</p>
<p>“We’re not just a program, we’re a family. The city is doing something that could be entirely avoided,” coach Brion Page <a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/04/amundsen-park-migrant-shelter-plans-have-austin-residents-on-edge-its-like-nobody-is-fighting-for-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “You’re just saying, ‘The hell with our kids.’ I do believe they need help, but you’re putting a problem into an area that already has problems.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Windy City Dolphins also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/chicago-youth-football-team-protest-citys-plan-house-migrants-threatens-displace-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a &#8220;protest to save Amundsen park&#8221; on the team’s Instagram stories on Thursday.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, <a href="https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/chicago-residents-decry-plans-to-house-migrants-at-neighborhood-park-nobody-is-fighting-for-us-austin-amundsen-illinois-brandon-johnson-chris-taliaferro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 400 residents reportedly showed up at a heated community meeting about the migrant housing plan, including players on a youth football team, videos posted on social media <a href="https://twitter.com/publicpolicyman/status/1709602937037525228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a>.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">These “Chicago” KIDS from the Amundsen Park youth football program in the Austin neighborhood will be kicked out  of their neighborhood field house so it can become a migrant shelter on Monday. Over 600 residents met last night here to oppose this. <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bennyjohnson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IllinoisReview?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IllinoisReview</a> <a href="https://t.co/w4y3pQRPK3">pic.twitter.com/w4y3pQRPK3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mark Weyermuller (@publicpolicyman) <a href="https://twitter.com/publicpolicyman/status/1709602937037525228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>“We do have empathy for migrants, but we have to take care of our community,” local resident Tasha Dudley <a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/04/amundsen-park-migrant-shelter-plans-have-austin-residents-on-edge-its-like-nobody-is-fighting-for-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “My nephews come to this park and it’s just been taken away and there’s no plan. It’s like nobody is fighting for us.”</p>
<p>Taliaferro <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/chicago-youth-football-team-protest-citys-plan-house-migrants-threatens-displace-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the migrant housing proposal &#8220;disregards democracy&#8221; since residents did not have a chance to discuss the issue before the decision was made. The proposal disregards &#8220;public safety&#8221; issues as well, he said.</p>
<p>Chicago has been scrambling to respond to a migrant crisis before the cold winter months arrive.</p>
<p>More than 17,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Chicago since August of last year, a spokesperson for Chicago&#8217;s Office of Emergency Management and Communications <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-migrant-crisis-by-the-numbers-a-look-at-arrivals-in-the-past-year/3244029/#:~:text=As%20of%20Oct.%205%2C%20more,number%20is%20expected%20to%20grow." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this week.</p>
<p>The country’s third-largest city has already spent at least $250 million on the issue.</p>
<p>Last month, Chicago <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-signs-nearly-30-million-contract-to-build-giant-winterized-tent-camps-for-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a $29.4 million contract with a private security firm to build massive winterized camps for newly-arrived illegal migrants. The firm <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/migrant-tent-cities-come-with-child-care-and-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be</a> responsible for building, staffing, and operating the huge tents, which must be able to house between 250 and 1,400 migrants.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the city is sheltering hundreds of migrants at police stations and O’Hare International Airport.</p>

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