Chicago community, where 97% voted for Biden, is furious after learning 500 migrants are coming

Outraged Chicagoans who voted overwhelmingly for President Biden in the last election have spoken out angrily against the hundreds of migrants being brought to the area, which are knocking long-term residents off housing waiting lists.

The old South Shore High School on the south side of town will serve as a temporary shelter for up to 500 migrants and officials have not yet made clear for how long.

Residents of the heavily Democratic suburb are speaking out after a lawsuit was filed alleging that the school was not intended for residential use and that residents had not been properly consulted about the plans.

‘All these resources that have not come to us now, you want to overcompensate for people who have never lived here before. We must be taken care of first and foremost before anything else happens!’ a woman asked.

“Many of these migrants have been dumped without a plan to monitor and house them for a long time,” explains another.

Residents are particularly angry about plans to house the migrants in the school, complaining about safety and a lack of consultation.

“Why would a leader further endanger our black communities, already riddled with crime, by putting unscreened non-taxpayers steps away from our seniors, our children, and our homes we worked so hard to build? ‘ another irate resident asked at a press conference.

“Our communities are at war. They violate our communities. We ask and demand that these issues be addressed,” said one woman.

“Politically, having more than 500 people in our community would completely wipe out any interest we have,” explained another.

Earlier this month, residents crowded into an auditorium and bombarded local officials with similar complaints.

“How could you do that without consulting us?” said one resident.

‘Build the wall. Make a boundary,’ cried another.

Nubia Willman, a City Hall official, was booed by the crowd as she tried to defend the plans.

“What’s important is that we really establish that this is a humanitarian crisis, and we’re here,” she said.

“While this crisis may represent an emergency for the City of Chicago, it is not an emergency for the South Shore community,” said Councilor Michelle A. Harris.

The lawsuit came just days after Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared a state of emergency over the arrival of migrants in Chicago, which she said had reached a “breaking point.”

“We’re out of space. I can’t stress that enough,” Lightfoot said.

Lightfoot, who made history as the first black woman and first gay person in the lead city, was on her last day in office on Friday.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson will take over the city’s administration on Monday.

On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Lightfoot he would not stop transporting migrants from northern Texas to Chicago.

Natasha Dunn, J. Darnell Jones and “South Shore neighbors” are plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed Thursday in County Court against the city and Chicago Public Schools, according to Block Club Chicago.

“Members of the Black Community Collaborative, South Shore voters and stakeholders are extremely dismayed at the City of Chicago’s inability to monitor and develop safe parameters around housing migrants brought here from the border,” Dunn said at a press conference on Thursday.

Lawyer Frank Avila also spoke at the conference. “We want the refugees and asylum seekers and migrants to come in, but we have areas in the city where they can go. Not centralized in one community,” he said.

“There has to be community participation and community input,” Avila said.

“When we talk about migrants and asylum seekers who came from violent countries, who came from war, who came from poverty, why do we place them in an area where they can be further traumatized?”

A number of residents have said the migrants should be transferred to a North Side facility — a sentiment echoed by Jones, a prosecutor in the lawsuit.

Why not Pilsen, Belmont Cragin, Logan Square, Little Village, South Chicago, South Deering, or Hegewisch? Communities that have a supportive cultural infrastructure?’ Jones said.

More than 8,000 have been bussed from the border to Chicago since August. In recent weeks, migrants have overwhelmed police station lobbies faster than the city was able to open shelters.

The declaration that the city is in a state of crisis comes as Lightfoot approaches the end of her term. On Monday, new mayor Brandon Johnson will be sworn in, inheriting a problem that Lightfoot himself said is likely to get worse.

Earlier this month, Lightfoot pleaded with Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stop the movement of migrants north from Texas.

In the letter posted to Twitter on Sunday, Lightfoot urged Abbott to reconsider “this dangerous and inhumane action.”

She said she sympathized with Texas border towns taking up the issue, but said shifting responsibility to other cities would not solve it.