Mayor Brandon Johnson's closest City Council allies urged him to end the 60-day migrant shelter limit policy, a day after evictions began.
CHICAGO -- Mayor Brandon Johnson's closest allies on the City Council are urging him to end Chicago's 60-day migrant shelter limit policy, a day after the city began evictions, and to demand more state and federal help to care for asylum seekers.The council's Progressive Reform Caucus has frequently voiced opposition to evicting migrants from city-run shelters, and on Monday issued a statement urging the mayor to immediately end the policy.
City delays some evictions under migrant shelter limitEvictions had been scheduled for nearly three dozen migrants on Sunday at three city-run shelters, but most of those were granted extensions to stay at their current shelters, and only three migrants were forced to leave. Those migrants have the option of returning to the city's migrant landing zone to reapply for a spot in a shelter.
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