Black citizens in Chicago flooded the city council meeting on Wednesday to express concerns over the city’s plan to allocate $51 million to support migrants in the city.
“We have not gotten anything for our community and we are sick and tired … enough is enough,” Ruff said.
“We didn’t have the luxury or the opportunity to cross the border. We didn’t have the privilege to cross the border,” Smith. “We came over here being raped, stolen, beaten, chained in the bottom of ships, and you give migrants $51 million? Have you forgot who you are?” The vote to allocate $51 million towards resources for migrants came the same week Mayor Johnson prematurelyChicago’s residents havethe city’s support for migrants in the weeks leading up to and since Johnson’s May 15 inauguration.
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