President Joe Biden has said he wouldn’t call the situation at the southern border a crisis, but officials in Chicago—host to this summer’s Democratic National Convention—appear to differ.
Chicago city officials, as well as Cabinet secretaries and senior staffers for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, routinely refer to a “crisis” in emails and other communications related to the border, according to more than 1,200 pages of documents obtained by The Daily Signal.
One example is an October 2022 email from a member of the Democrat-run Chicago City Council to Grace Hou, secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services, as revealed by documents released by the governor’s office through a public records request.
“Thank you for reaching out today to discuss the situation with migrants and refugees in the city and state,” Chicago Alderman…
