Chicago residents are protesting about an illegal immigrant encampment funded by the city government.
The encampment is to be located near a neighborhood.
According to Reuters, the shelters will house up to 2,200 migrants and will cost the city $65 million.
Brighton Park residents are suing the city, claiming the shelter site violates the city’s zoning laws.
“These people are just getting off the bus and everything’s given to them,” said one protestor. “As a taxpayer, I don’t think that’s right.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) blamed “right-wing extremism” for the city’s immigration crisis.
“What we have seen is a raggedy form instituted by right-wing extremism. Everyone knows that the right-wing extremism in this country has targetted Democratically-ran cities and quite frankly, they’ve been very intentional about going after Democratically-ran cities that are led by people of color,” he said.
He stated that “right-wing extremists’” motivation is to “create disruption and chaos because that’s what this particular party has been about. This is the same political party that did not want to accept that President Obama was actually an American. It’s the same Republican right-wing extremism that stormed the Capitol. It’s the same right-wing extremism that refuses to accept the results of the Civil War. It’s raggedy. It’s disrespectful it’s mean-spirited. It’s an unclean spirit, quite frankly.”
