Not sure y’all understand what winter in Chicago can mean. Hope for these folks sake it’s a mild one. Some years it can be below zero for weeks. We will be doing everything we can to make sure these people don’t freeze to death, but these people will need help beyond what the people of Chicago and our local government will be able to muster.

why would you move from Venezuela to anywhere like Chicago a month before winter begins? seems to be a very poor decision.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Public meetings to discuss opening shelters have turned into shouting matches, with residents accusing city officials of prioritizing the needs of new arrivals over longtime Chicagoans.

Deaundre Miguel Jones, 47, said he had watched with exasperation as the police station in his Old Town neighborhood turned into a place where migrants sleep on cots indoors and outside in camping tents.

Some eagerly boarded buses to Chicago at the southern border because they recognized the name of the city and assumed that it was large enough to offer opportunity and a place to work.

In interviews, several Venezuelans who had arrived recently said they had come to Chicago because they had distant relatives in the city or had heard from friends that it had robust social services.

But many said Chicago had become their destination simply because they were offered a free plane or bus ticket from previous shelters, where they arrived penniless and sleep deprived.

“We came here with one sole purpose: to work,” said Eudo Luis Ledezma, 41, who arrived in Chicago on Tuesday after a harrowing two-month journey that began in his hometown, Maracaibo, a city in northwestern Venezuela.

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