Plan to house migrants at Wright College met with both boos and support at tense, packed community meeting
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One of the most contentious moments unfolded when a man approached the microphone and baldly stated, “They don’t belong here. They’ll be bringing disease into the neighborhood.” City Colleges Chancellor Juan Salgado endured the first round of boos when he said told the crowd the was “confident that this will go well.” Sposato tried to calm them down with a “We’re better than this,” but some in the crowd kept yelling, “Bulls---.”
Still, a sizable portion of the crowd bellowed their support for migrants too. Neighbors walked up and said the fault lies with Republican governors of border states who started the initiative to shepherd asylum seekers to Chicago and other major cities up north. One woman who said she’s been a resident of the ward for 15 years added, “We taught our children to have compassion and to have empathy, and I’m very sad that we are not showing compassion and empathy to these families.
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