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A Democratic alderman successful Chicago warned metropolis leaders that they are neglecting their ain citizens by voting to walk Mayor Brandon Johnson's petition for an further $70 cardinal to thief care for migrants who person arrived successful nan city.
The fund committee voted 20-8 connected Monday to beforehand nan connection to nan full City Council aft a lengthy debate.
"We are not taking attraction of our own," Ald. Chris Taliaferro of nan 29th Ward said during nan meeting. "We person each but forgotten nan residents connected nan West Side and South Side."
The metropolis has already allocated $150 cardinal to thief pinch nan increasing migrant crisis, and different metropolis officials besides questioned Johnson’s petition for nan further $70 cardinal successful funding.
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A group of migrants receives nutrient extracurricular nan migrant landing area during a wintertime large wind connected Jan. 12, 2024, successful Chicago. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
"Here we are begging for much money erstwhile we don’t person money for nan group here," said 9th Ward Ald. Anthony Beale, a Democrat who opposed nan proposal. "We don't person money for aft schoolhouse programs. We don't person money to thief our kids get disconnected nan street. Yet, we would conscionable rustle money near and right. That's a basal problem."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson initially allocated $150 cardinal to thief money nan attraction of migrants who arrived successful nan city. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, File)
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The $70 million, should nan afloat City Council o.k. nan proposal, will beryllium drawn from nan city’s assigned money equilibrium from 2022, Budget Director Annette Guzman said Monday, according to nan Chicago Sun-Times.
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The City Council could ballot connected nan connection arsenic soon arsenic Wednesday.
