Immigration Watch International (2): Here's What Chicago Plans to Do With the Illegal Immigrants Sleeping in Airports, Police Stations

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Here's What Chicago Plans to Do With the Illegal Immigrants Sleeping in Airports, Police Stations

Chicago will set up military-style tents to help get illegal immigrants out of airports and police stations across the city.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration signed a nearly $30 million contract earlier this month with a private security firm to build and operate “winterized base camps.” While it’s still unclear where the tents will be set up, CBS News Chicago reports that one location being discussed is an empty parking lot in the Roseland neighborhood, which could hold up to 1,400 illegal immigrants.

Residents pushed back on the plans, however, arguing that they can’t add illegal immigrants to a community already in crisis.

It’s unclear when the camps will begin getting built, but they are said to house 12 people each. There are also sanitation tents and kitchen units as well.

One part of the contract indicates that if temperatures are in the 40s, the units must be at about 70 degrees, leading to questions about how the tents will withstand Chicago winters.

“I can only imagine what’s going to happen trying to keep an outdoor tent warm in the winter when we know single digit temps will be the norm come January or February,” 15th Ward Ald. Ray Lopez told WGN9.

Additional benefits illegal immigrants will receive in the tents include all-day child care and transportation to school, doctor appointments, and more.

“We’re not thinking long term,” Lopez said. “We’re only doing crisis to crisis and I’ve said this is not a game of Whack-a-mole. This has to be a long term thought out process.”

According to WGN9, Chicago will have spent more than $255 million taking care of the illegal immigrants by the year's end.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/09/22/chicago-drops-29-million-to-build-tent-city-for-illegal-immigrants-n2628796

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Here's What Chicago Plans to Do With the Illegal Immigrants Sleeping in Airports, Police Stations

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