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Chicago began removing migrant families from city shelters to ease pressure on overrun city resources Monday.
In March, the city began evicting single men and some single women from city shelters, but this week is the first time entire families have been evicted. When that happens, they are expected to go to Chicago’s “landing zone,” where they can sleep on city buses while applying to reenter the city’s migrant system.
As of Wednesday, 966 people had been evicted from city shelters, and more than 50% of them had reentered the system.
“Now that the families are getting evicted, you’re going to see mom and dad and the children in the streets,” said Baltazar Enriquez, President of the Little Village Community Council, a neighborhood organization. “Thankfully, it’s the summer, but we have seen a lot of asylum-seekers camping in the parks, on the highways, out on the streets. We’re going to see that more often now.”
Some private shelters have opened to absorb the demand for shelter that evictions will create. A new church-run migrant shelter opened in the city at St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, where 50 migrants are being housed and another 250 are expected to arrive.
“I know that your journey here has been long and difficult, but today marks the end of that journey,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday at the church.
On Friday, Chicago Public Schools ended session for the 2023-24 school year, and evictions began on Monday. Some say the disruption is bad for children, many of whom are enrolled in CPS.
“Going through this eviction process is stressful and very challenging for them,” Alyssa Phillips, education attorney for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, told the Chicago Tribune.
She said the families were set to be evicted in the middle of the school year, but some advocates pushed back.
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“The standard is not shelter in perpetuity,” Johnson, a former CPS teacher, said when asked about disruptions to children’s education. “The standard and the expectation is that people can actually live sustainable, fruitful lives in Chicago or anywhere else in America.”
Since 2022, more than 43,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago.
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