The money approved by the City Council on Wednesday will only cover the costs of assistance for asylum seekers through June 30.
The Chicago City Council voted Wednesday to spend $51 million in funding from a 2021 budget surplus to pay for efforts to care for migrants from Central and South America who have been sent here from Texas, following a heated debate that was repeatedly interrupted by angry protesters.
"We need to take care of our community. We need to take care of our Black community. We need to open up these schools for mental health," she said."We need to take care of our homeless. We need to open up these centers for mental health. We need to allocate some of this money for our Black children, for the Black community. We have not gotten anything for our community, and we are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
"The soul of Chicago is somewhat on trial today regarding this ordinance," said Ald. David Moore , one of the 13 alderpersons who voted against the funding measure. , voted for the funding, and said the anger on display at Wednesday's meeting was the result of decades of disinvestment in Black neighborhoods across the city.
In urging their colleagues to support the $51 million to support asylum seekers, several Latino alderpersons voiced support for finally approving some form of reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Americans in Chicago. Both supporters and opponents said the city needs more help from the state and federal governments to help pay for care being provided to asylum seekers who have arrived in Chicago from Texas.
said she knows"it's right to want to help other people, because as Black people, that's what we do, but when the hell are y'all gonna help us? When?" "As Black people who have been hurt continuously by the city and the country it loves, it ain't our responsibility to take care of everybody else. And we're tired, because we do that," she said."When we fought for civil rights, when we fought for our seat at the table, when we fought just to drink out of a damn fountain, it was us. But hurt people don't hurt other hurt people.
Johnson said he doesn't see the heated debate at Wednesday's meeting as a sign that his political honeymoon is over after taking office earlier this month.
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