Migrants in Chicago park shelters to be displaced

today Chicago city council committee on immigration Refugee Rights will meet as the city grapples with the growing migrant crisis this comes as the city's mayor announced that beginning this Saturday hundreds of migrants will be displaced as temporary shelters will be set up in Parks those will close for more on this story bring in Monica Ang she is a Chicago reporter for axios thanks for being with us Monica uh before we speak about today's meeting want to ask about the current migrant situatio

n in Chicago today what does this look like well we've got about 10,300 uh migrants living in 23 shelters um on Saturday the mayor will close five of those shelters uh we have a rolling um the city doesn't like to call them evictions but rolling time out periods where people will have to leave the shelters um dozens may be leaving over the next few weeks possibly thousands over the next month uh we have a measel outbreak uh where we have 31 cases uh most of them concentrated in a in a a Westside

uh uh pilson shelter and so uh lots of moving parts so uh where uh are these migrants being moved to well uh that's a really good question the ones that are leaving the parks will be moved to other shelters but those who have simply timed out on their um their time at the shelters will have to get to the back of the line and what's called The Landing Zone where the migrant ANS arrive when they come to Chicago we've got about 10 who are in The Landing Zone today awaiting shelter so Monica the ci

ty's council meeting on immigrant and Refugee Rights as we mentioned is happening today walk us through what's on the agenda well they'll be looking at how the the measles crisis has been affecting shelters are there new rules about mandatory vaccinations before you enter a shelter they're vaccinating people when they arrive at the Landing Zone they're going to be looking at this 60-day rule about what if any modifications can be made to it they've now made modifications where if you're a family

uh you can get extensions you can get exceptions to the 60-day rule if you are in quarantine because of your vaccinations you can get exceptions most of the people who are being asked to leave now are single men so um let's ask about how people are feeling about the influx of migrants in Chicago um and could that sentiment influence response from local government yeah I think it loyal University recently did a big uh study of more than 2,000 people across Cook County and what they found is that

more than 70% did feel that the migrant crisis is affecting the government's ability to help current residents but that they still you know do want to offer help and they broke it down by demographics what you found is younger people Democrats women and Asians all were more sympathetic and more more willing to help migrants than other groups um and that that kind of you know pushed against some of the sentiments because we saw one Asian-American Community push back against having a migrant faci

lity in their area you've seen a lot of um uh protests in some African-American areas um about migrants and what you found was that um sentiments towards migrants in the Latino and africanamerican Community were almost totally equal wow it's fascinating uh Monica thank you so much for your reporting and for spending some time with us this morning appreciate it thank you all right