Border crossers live on Chicago streets after getting locked out of police station

A group of illegal immigrants in Chicago took their luggage, mattresses, and furniture into the street on Wednesday after they were locked out of the police station where they were housed.

The immigrants and their belongings appeared to spring up outside the Chicago Police Department’s 1st District station, which closed its doors to the immigrants and emptied its lobby, according to a report.

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One immigrant, identified as a Venezuelan man, had been living in the station’s lobby for an unconfirmed period.

As they were kicked out, the illegal immigrants were directed to remove their items from the station, and all that was apparently offered to them was a portable toilet, according to the report.

Police stations in Chicago have become a mainstay for housing immigrants as illegal immigrants continue to arrive.

At least 17,000 have come to Chicago since August 2022, and shelters have swelled with 9,800 immigrants.

Many of the illegal immigrants have come as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) effort to bus immigrants from the border to Democratic-controlled “sanctuary cities,” and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said at least 22 busloads were expected for Wednesday.

“So, going to the border is to make sure that everybody knows that my administration is committed to making sure that we are putting together the full force of government at every single level to ensure that these families, who, by the way, they’re not illegal, they’re asylum-seekers, they are protected by international law,” Johnson said while announcing plans to visit the border.

Johnson’s announcement came the same day citizens of the city’s South Side announced they were filing suit against the city to stop the flood of illegal immigrants, according to the report.

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“It’s not about the migrants themselves. It’s about the city’s response to them and the lies and the mistruths told by the administration. And they are not working in the best interest of Chicago,” according to organizer Brian Mullins.

“If you call it a humanitarian effort, they shouldn’t be sleeping in police stations on the floor.”