Coexistence
“At least six more Big Apple schools are set to start temporarily housing migrants in their gyms, prompting all hell to break loose Monday among parents frantic over safety and potential learning disruptions.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/parents-outraged-as-6-more-nyc-schools-to-house-migrants-in-gyms/amp/
NY Citizens’ migration frustration.
“Adams maintained that the city has not yet become so inundated with migrants that they need to be housed in the gyms, saying those who were photographed in a Brooklyn gymnasium over the weekend were there for only “a few hours.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/migrants-cause-chaos-at-regional-airports/
Chicago South Side Citizens Speak
Now, South Side residents are pushing back against the city’s plan to house several hundred migrants at the vacant South Shore High School located at 76th Street and Constance Avenue.
“Why would any leader put our Black communities already riddled with crime, at further risk by placing unvetted, non-taxpayers steps away from our seniors, our children,” said J. Darnell Jones, who lives in South Shore.”
“If the city’s plan goes through, the school building would become a site where migrants could temporarily sleep, eat, and shower.”
“They will be fully taken care of, yet here in our community, we aren’t taken care of,” said Linda Cohran, who lives in South Shore.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-residents-speak-out-migrants.amp
TX State of Emergency.
EL PASO, Texas — The mayor of a Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community’s ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border.
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser issued the state of emergency declaration to allow the city on the U.S. border with Mexico to tap into additional resources that are expected to become necessary after Title 42 expulsions end on Dec. 21, the El Paso
TX Border Illegal Crossings.
“More than 1.5 million illegal migrants have slipped into the US since Joe Biden took office — more than three times the number recorded during the last three years of Trump’s presidency, Department of Homeland Security data shows.”
“A staggering 530,000 so called ‘gotaways’ — illegal immigrants known to have entered the country but not been caught — have been recorded since last October, according to US Border Patrol.”
“Thousands of migrants are still surging over the southern border, but once allowed into the US, most have to move on — causing confusion and overcrowding at regional airports.”
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