Chicago's O'Hare Airport used as a migrant shelter as crisis overwhelms city

[seafoam1 3,025]

Be careful what you wish for...

 

Chicago leaders are facing backlash over hundreds of migrants being housed at O'Hare International Airport, one of the nation's busiest airports. 

Chicago reporter William Kelly joined "Fox & Friends" Thursday to discuss what the city has been experiencing as a result of the influx of migrants.

More than 400 migrants are reportedly being housed in a section of the airport, hidden from public view behind black curtains, up from 31 at the beginning of August.

Kelly said the airport is one of only 18 migrant shelters in Chicago and that homeless Americans are no longer allowed to stay at the airport. The city previously struggled with an influx of homeless people at the airport but initiated a crackdown earlier this year after then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot faced criticism. 

"Mayor Johnson campaigned as the people's mayor. Sadly, the people are telling me that he's the migrants' mayor," said Kelly.

Kelly said he does not think the same security and background checks that Americans go through at airports apply to migrants. Meanwhile, the city continues to struggle with crime and to recover from the coronavirus lockdowns.  

"There are millions upon millions of dollars being spent on this migrant crisis. Nobody knows where the money is going, or what it's being spent on."

Kelly said he has been unable to receive answers from the mayor. 

"Sadly, Mayor Johnson must have taken Mayor Lightfoot's course at Harvard on media relations, because he won't answer my questions."

"One of the migrant shelters in Chicago is directly across the street from my building on Michigan Avenue. So I look out the window, and it's like a scene from Mad Max every single day.

"It really is a fail on every level, the police are not able to babysit the migrants and arrest the violent criminals at the same time. And so the people of Chicago are suffering."

Vianney Marzullo, a lead volunteer with the Police Station Response Team advocacy group, told the Chicago Sun-Times that O'Hare is supposedly just a holding place for the incoming flights. 

According to the Daily Mail, Chicago continues to struggle to house the influx of thousands of migrants into the city. About 14,000 migrants have been transported to Chicago by bus since August. 

There are 15 shelters for asylum seekers operating across the city currently with another shelter expected to open next month on the South Side. 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicagos-ohare-airport-used-migrant-shelter-crisis-overwhelms-city-like-scene-mad-max

[BuckSwope 654]

They are already at the airport, is it that hard to trick a few hundred immigrants onto a plane in the middle of the night?   Problem solved.  

[TBayXXXVII 2,546]

4 hours ago, BuckSwope said:

They are already at the airport, is it that hard to trick a few hundred immigrants onto a plane in the middle of the night?   Problem solved.  

I'm ok with that.  Find out which country they came from and each airline can pick a few destinations and fly people back to the country they came from.  I'd even support a bill that would allow the airlines to get reimbursed for their expenses on behalf of doing the government's job for them.

[Mike Hunt 282]

San Fran and Chicago, two former glorious cities are going down the tubes.  SF already might be too far gone to recover unless they get a clean slate of leadership fast.

[RLLD 4,230]

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,433]

They gotta go. We’re overbooked. 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

On 9/8/2023 at 4:17 AM, BuckSwope said:

They are already at the airport, is it that hard to trick a few hundred immigrants onto a plane in the middle of the night?   Problem solved.  

they only do that if you ship them to marthas vineyard or other super rich elite communes in the northeast.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,433]

30 minutes ago, JustinCharge said:

they only do that if you ship them to marthas vineyard or other super rich elite communes in the northeast.

Lol. They called in the Army. That happened. 

[The Real timschochet 6,765]

We need immigration reform. We need to overhaul our system. 
 

The problem is that the conservative “solution” to these issues is unacceptable to half the country. And the liberal “solution”, which I generally lean toward, is unacceptable to the other half. So until our leaders are willing to compromise this is only going to get worse. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,433]

Just now, The Real timschochet said:

We need immigration reform. We need to overhaul our system. 
 

The problem is that the conservative “solution” to these issues is unacceptable to half the country. And the liberal “solution”, which I generally lean toward, is unacceptable to the other half. So until our leaders are willing to compromise this is only going to get worse. 

We can stop with letting the asylum process be exploited. 

[seafoam1 3,025]

Send them all to San Francisco, New York City, and Philthadelphia. I'm all for it. 

[RLLD 4,230]

59 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

We need immigration reform. We need to overhaul our system. 
 

The problem is that the conservative “solution” to these issues is unacceptable to half the country. And the liberal “solution”, which I generally lean toward, is unacceptable to the other half. So until our leaders are willing to compromise this is only going to get worse. 

You are typically rather cogent on this topic.  So may I ask, if you were to solution an approach what that might look like at the 1000ft view?  Maybe five or six key elements to a more appropriate system?

[The Real timschochet 6,765]

12 minutes ago, RLLD said:

You are typically rather cogent on this topic.  So may I ask, if you were to solution an approach what that might look like at the 1000ft view?  Maybe five or six key elements to a more appropriate system?

Sure: 

1. A more open immigration program. If we’re going to have a “line”, make it a real line; all people of all countries who desire to come here should have an equal chance regardless of their economics or country of origin. 

2. More judges to consider claims of asylum or refugee status (separate from normal immigration.) 

3. Secure borders. I think more policing is highly preferable to more walls. But we need to find a way to do this without interfering with trade- difficult but not impossible. 
 

4. Legal status for illegals immigrants under the following conditions: they must pay a fine for having come here illegally. They cannot have committed a felony. And they can never be allowed to vote in their lifetimes. Otherwise they can enjoy all the rights of citizenship. 
 

5. Get rid of minimum wage. This is what creates the black market. Let market forces decide wages. 
 

Anyhow that’s how I see it. 

[RLLD 4,230]

1 minute ago, The Real timschochet said:

Sure: 

1. A more open immigration program. If we’re going to have a “line”, make it a real line; all people of all countries who desire to come here should have an equal chance regardless of their economics or country of origin. 

2. More judges to consider claims of asylum or refugee status (separate from normal immigration.) 

3. Secure borders. I think more policing is highly preferable to more walls. But we need to find a way to do this without interfering with trade- difficult but not impossible. 
 

4. Legal status for illegals immigrants under the following conditions: they must pay a fine for having come here illegally. They cannot have committed a felony. And they can never be allowed to vote in their lifetimes. Otherwise they can enjoy all the rights of citizenship. 
 

5. Get rid of minimum wage. This is what creates the black market. Let market forces decide wages. 
 

Anyhow that’s how I see it. 

These seem reasoned to my eyes. 

Should there be any limit on how many people we allow to come into the nation?

[The Real timschochet 6,765]

17 minutes ago, RLLD said:

These seem reasoned to my eyes. 

Should there be any limit on how many people we allow to come into the nation?

Well my own view on this is no. But I realize that only a tiny handful of people will ever agree with me so it’s not something I push for. 

[BuckSwope 654]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

We can stop with letting the asylum process be exploited. 

We can't do that without a sh1t ton of lawyers and judges.   A huge reason why it is able to be exploited is because last time I looked the average was 4.5 years for an asylum hearing.  

[RLLD 4,230]

24 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Well my own view on this is no. But I realize that only a tiny handful of people will ever agree with me so it’s not something I push for. 

Perhaps on that point we diverge

[The Real timschochet 6,765]

3 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Perhaps on that point we diverge

That’s OK man. If I talked to 100 people, 99 would disagree with me. I’m used to it. 

[RLLD 4,230]

Just now, The Real timschochet said:

That’s OK man. If I talked to 100 people, 99 would disagree with me. I’m used to it. 

[HellToupee 1,776]

reports today is that a scabies outbreak could shutdown the airport.  The videos out there are crazy 

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,433]

We have been averaging a million legal immigrants into this country for years. That’s not enough? 

[HellToupee 1,776]

 

[Mike Hunt 282]

6 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

We have been averaging a million legal immigrants into this country for years. That’s not enough? 

Tim says there is room, we have lots of airports!

[seafoam1 3,025]

I have always liked Midway better than Ohare anyway. Boycott flying in and out of there the best you can and write the mayor saying "Fock off". 

[seafoam1 3,025]

1 minute ago, Mike Hunt said:

Tim says there is room, we have lots of airports!

Even more hotels. 

[RLLD 4,230]

It is so nice of these cities to invite people from all over to just come there, and offer them a place to live and all the benefits possible that the hard-working people of that locale provide....how very nice of them!   And then of course allowing all those new visitors to take all the local jobs available from the lower-income folks living there....so nice....

[Reality 3,121]

You can't even think about fixing these issues until you secure the border. 

[RLLD 4,230]

13 minutes ago, Reality said:

You can't even think about fixing these issues until you secure the border. 

But,  the white house and their cronies have assured us that the border IS secure