Chicago’s self-proclaimed progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, has warned that tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants have taken refuge in the city, even as local black unemployment rates have risen many times the national average. is pressing the Biden administration to ease the expansion of work permits for people with disabilities.
Chicago is experiencing almost the following situations: 40,000 illegal immigrants The lack of work permits at the city’s 20 shelters is making it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to get jobs in Chicago, and Johnson is calling for more of these permits. But it has to come from the federal government.
But Johnson is frustrated by the slow pace of action from federal authorities.according to AxiosIn the Windy City, 5,329 work permit applications have been submitted, but only 2,258 have been approved.
Meanwhile, black unemployment is exploding in Chicago, even as the mayor they voted for is working overtime to give more jobs to undocumented immigrants against a backdrop of rising crime levels. There is.
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as Crain’s Chicago operations According to the report, the black unemployment rate in Illinois is 10.9%. But in Chicago, that rate is a staggering 57.4 percent.Nationwide, black unemployment rates are the only 5.5 percentaccording to Statista.
Chicago also faces other challenges brought on by Biden’s border crisis. Despite efforts by city health officials to allay fears by claiming that the outbreak was under control and that city residents were at no risk of contracting the disease, outbreaks of tuberculosis continued to occur in city shelters. It was reported that there was.
Tuberculosis is not the only disease occurring in the city’s migrant shelters.
Health officials also reported an outbreak of measles, which became so severe that the Centers for Disease Control sent a team to help the city deal with the outbreak.
CNN: “Three measles cases linked to a migrant shelter in Chicago… CDC teams are now on the ground to help contain the spread of the highly contagious virus.” pic.twitter.com/F9mVJLLftN
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Chicago isn’t the only deep blue city calling on Biden to turn on work permits for undocumented immigrants.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is also eager to expand work permits. Mr. Johnston argued in January that work permits were needed, but the larger problem that more work permits would attract more illegal aliens was “beyond his pay grade.” “I’m saying that.
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