El alcalde Brandon Johnson reunido con migrantes alojados en la comisaría del distrito de Near West el año pasado. | Anthony Vazquez/Archivos Sun-Times Los miembros del Concejo Municipal aprobaron el viernes un excedente de gasto de $70 millones que, con la ayuda del condado y el estado, se espera que cubra los gastos hasta finales de año para atender a la llegada de solicitantes de asilo enviados a Chicago desde la frontera sur de Estados Unidos. Por 30 votos a favor y 18 en contra, los miembros del Consejo respaldaron la última ronda de financiación para una crisis que ha puesto en evide ..read more

Protestors rally in Congress Plaza in support of legalization of undocumented immigrants in October 2021. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times As the co-chair of The Illinois Latino Agenda, a coalition that is leading with a bold commitment to advocate for the needs of our people, a child of an immigrant, and someone who leads a nonprofit organization serving Latino communities, I felt compelled to respond to your recent editorial, which suggests that asking President Joe Biden to extend work permits through parole is an excessive demand. A majority of Illinois undocumented workers are Latino and 3 ..read more

Mayor Brandon Johnson meets migrants staying at the Near West district police station last year. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times (file) City Council members on Friday approved $70 million in surplus spending that, with assistance from the county and state, is expected to cover expenses through the end of the year to care for the influx of asylum-seekers sent to Chicago from the Southern U.S. border. By a vote of 30-18, Council members backed the latest round of funding for a crisis that has highlighted racial divisions in the city, raising questions about committing money to new Latino arrival ..read more

Minyon Moore, chair of the Democratic National Convention Committee, discusses the 2024 Democratic National Convention during a news conference at the Hilton Chicago, Thursday. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Top state Democratic Party leaders on Thursday vowed “Blue Wall” unity ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago despite party fissures over the war in Gaza and the ongoing migrant crisis — and polls that show President Joe Biden still must gain ground to win key battleground states. Democrats are deeply focused on Wisconsin and Michigan to help bolster Biden’s re-election chanc ..read more

Walter “Slim” Coleman (center) speaks at a rally in the Loop called to protest an immigration raid in Little Village in 2007. Al Podgorski/Chicago Sun-Times Walter 'Slim' Coleman, a dyed-in-the-wool radical activist of the 1960s who for decades harnessed the power of the city's poor to challenge its power structure and achieve social justice goals, died Tuesday after a long bout with illness. He was 80. One of his biggest accomplishments was helping to organize a voting drive in Chicago's poor white communities that helped elect Mayor Harold Washington, the city's first Black mayor. Mr ..read more

Carl Wolf, director ejecutivo de Respond Now, organización sin ánimo de lucro de los suburbios del sur, dice que si más municipios no quieren utilizar los $20 millones en subvenciones del Condado de Cook para ayudar a los migrantes, pueden pasarles el dinero a organizaciones como la suya. Kristen Schorsch/WBEZ Los suburbios no están aprovechando los $20 millones que el Condado de Cook está ofreciendo para brindar servicios a los migrantes que son llevados o que están en camino a sus ciudades. Hasta ahora, sólo Oak Park y Ford Heights solicitaron el fondo que el Condado de Cook creó el ot ..read more

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle (left) attends a news conference last year to endorse then mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson outside City Hall in the Loop. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times A divided City Council committee agreed Monday to slap another $70 million Band-Aid on Chicago’s migrant crisis after behind-the-scenes lobbying by County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and others. Preckwinkle was among those calling recalcitrant City Council members in recent days, urging them to support the $70 million in migrant funding Mayor Brandon Johnson promised months ago. Johnson then back ..read more

Carl Wolf, executive director of Respond Now, a non-profit in the south suburbs, says if more municipalities don’t want to use $20 million in Cook County grants to help migrants, they can pass the money through to organizations like his. Kristen Schorsch/WBEZ Suburbs are not taking advantage of $20 million Cook County is offering to provide services for migrants being dropped off or making their way to their towns. As of now, only Oak Park and Ford Heights applied for the fund Cook County created last fall. The lack of effort is frustrating some non-profit leaders who see the need in the ..read more

El senador Dick Durbin realiza una conferencia de prensa en GirlForward después de reunirse con niños detenidos en Chicago como parte de la decisión de la administración Trump de separar a los niños de sus padres inmigrantes, la mañana del viernes 22 de junio de 2018. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times WASHINGTON, D.C. — El estado de Illinois y la Ciudad de Chicago se repartirán en partes iguales $19.3 millones en nuevos fondos federales para ayudar a solventar los costos en aumento que implica de atender a los migrantes que el gobernador de Texas, Gregg Abbott, ha enviado a la ciudad, anunció el se ..read more

 WASHINGTON — The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago will split equally $19.3 million in new federal funding to help pay for the soaring costs of taking care of migrants Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott has sent to the city, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., announced in a Friday statement. The grant for the Chicago and Illinois state governments comes from $300 million in spending Congress earlier approved for the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency to deal with the migrant crisis. “This announcement will help equi ..read more