Police dept in Chicago now turned into an illegal migrant camp.
Elections have consequences pic.twitter.com/zPnCKUqVqd— Lidia Curanaj (@LidiaNews) May 22, 2023
Numerous Chicago police stations are serving as makeshift shelters for migrants and are dealing with bed bugs, illnesses, food and basic healthcare shortages.
Some migrants I spoke with have been here from days to weeks and don’t know where they will go. pic.twitter.com/f6xnqrwmpN
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) May 22, 2023
Well, Chicago police weren’t using their police buildings for policing.
They might as well be used for something, right?
Shocking video shows Chicago police precincts overrun by makeshift shelters for migrants — with already overworked cops complaining of “zero assistance” from the city.
The footage filmed by videographer Rebecca Brannon on Sunday shows row upon row of makeshift beds on the floors of precinct houses, with young kids among those sleeping or running around and playing.
Their personal belongings, some in plastic trash bags, are littered around the lobbies and mounted high against glass windows as other migrants lounge around outside listening to music.
Brannon said she found the camps while visiting eight different stations Sunday across the sanctuary city, which has already declared a state of emergency over the overwhelming influx of border crossers.
“I’m told just about every station is like this across the city,” she wrote alongside another clip showing trash strewn outside one station.
“The 12th precinct alone has at times seen over 100 migrants,” she wrote.
A police source complained “that they are receiving no assistance from the city or government, leaving them to personally support those in need such as purchasing food or baby wipes,” Brannon wrote.
The independent journalist noted union complaints that those in the precincts are “dealing with bed bugs, illnesses, food and basic healthcare shortages.”
Some migrants are forced to move their stuff outside to avoid an infestation of bed bugs, she said.
“Some migrants I spoke with have been here from days to weeks and don’t know where they will go,” she wrote.
The new arrivals have taken to the precincts — as well as other public spaces, like airports — after long ago running out of space in the eight shelters dedicated to new migrants.
“Our system is over capacity,” Brandie Knazze, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services, warned late last month.
“Make no mistake, we are in a surge and things have yet to peak.”
Cops told Book Club Chicago that they are getting no help from the city — with some feeling so sorry for the plight of the families on their doorstep that they’re paying out of their own pockets to help.
“I’ve spent well over $300,” one South Side officer told the outlet of shelling out for basic supplies like baby formula, clothes for children and hygiene kits, none of which are otherwise provided.
“When someone has a need in front of us, you can’t turn a blind eye. Look what’s here, it’s children,” she said.
Probably, we have all become desensitized to these images of parasitic brown people flooding into cities and just popping a squat wherever they please.
In 2015, the images of “caravans” moving into Europe were shocking.
Again, in 2017 and 2018, we were shocked by the images of the southern hordes moving into America.
What is happening now is much, much worse, and yet, the shock seems to have warn off.
People expect to see it, they don’t believe there is anything they can do about it, so their eyes just glaze over when they see it.
Trash and belongings of migrants are piling up in and outside the several police stations I visited across Chicago. Some precincts have migrants bring their items outside to to help control or prevent bed bugs.
I’m told just about every station is like this across the city. pic.twitter.com/GzY77gGvbX
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) May 22, 2023