As you’ve probably heard, Chicago has been dealing with a large number of migrants, many of whom have arrived by bus from Texas. Starting last year, Mayor Brandon Johnson was trying to discourage the buses by impounding them. But he couldn’t do that to the plane loads of migrants which flew in from Texas.
Things got worse this month when there was a measles outbreak at one of the city’s shelters housing the migrants. The number of cases reached 12 yesterday and most of them are connected to one of the city’s shelters.
Despite the outbreak the city continued to press forward with a new plan that would limit migrants to 60 days in a city shelter. That plan was announced last November but Mayor Johnson has extended the deadline three times to avoid evicting people during the frigid Chicago weather. Now the deadline is finally set to take effect this weekend but yesterday the mayor…
