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Chicago's migrant crisis coverup: Mayor Brandon Johnson REFUSES to admit
how much city is paying for its 27 shelters - as report shows almost
$1MILLION A WEEK is being spent on just THREE hotels
The Windy City has struggled to care for more than 34,000 asylum-seekers
bussed in from the border
Chicago has refused to reveal where all of the funds are going or how
much various out-of-state companies are profiting
Mayor Brandon Johnson refused to directly answer questions about the
funding
By STEPHEN M. LEPORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 21:27 EDT, 26 March 2024 | UPDATED: 05:59 EDT, 27 March 2024

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been criticized for refusing to be
completely transparent on where hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars
have gotten to the city's homeless shelters amid a migrant crisis.

The Windy City has struggled to care for more than 34,000 asylum-seekers
bussed in from the border by Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the past 18
months.

It has spent $300 million on the crisis and has been fighting with the
state of Illinois about where to build more shelters and is currently
fighting a measles outbreak at one of the shelters.

The state attempted to quell fears on how taxpayer money would be spent
on the crisis by launching a page on the state comptroller's website
that would track it.

However, the city has refused to reveal where all of the funds are
going, with the Democrat Johnson being evasive when questioned by the
press.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been criticized for refusing to be
completely transparent on where hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars
have gotten to the city's homeless shelters amid a migrant crisis
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been criticized for refusing to be
completely transparent on where hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars
have gotten to the city's homeless shelters amid a migrant crisis

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The city has only provided full transparency on funding for a third of
the city's 27 shelters.

However, the ones that they did are getting as much as $344,000 a week
in taxpayer cash, which is the price tag for The Inn in Chicago. It has
1,500 beds. That would make out to $17 million over the course of a year.

Other shelters like the site in the city's Pilsen neighborhood are
getting $280,000 a week, with the Ogden shelter getting $150,000 a week.
These shelters are servicing 2,000 and 1,000 migrants, respectively and
pocketing millions over the last three months.

The Pilsen shelter is notable for an outbreak of measles that is now at
14 cases, with the city forced to mandate vaccinations, according to WTTW.

What's caused even more outrage is the city allegedly hiding where those
funds are going by using out-of-state private companies to staff the
shelters, NBC Chicago reported.

City records indicate that $206 million has gone to Favorite Health Care
standing, a Kansas-based company whose high cost has angered Chicago
officials.

A Kentucky-based company called Equitable Social Solutions has received
$45 million to identify where shelters are located.

Alderman Andre Vasquez, the chairman of the city council's migrant
committee, is angry that the city won't reveal what those companies have
made in profits.

The Windy City has struggled to care for more than 34,000 asylum-seekers
bussed in from the border by Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the past 18
months
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The Windy City has struggled to care for more than 34,000 asylum-seekers
bussed in from the border by Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the past 18
months

The Inn in Chicago is serving as a shelter with 1,500 beds. They are
reportedly making 344,000 a week in taxpayer cash
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The Inn in Chicago is serving as a shelter with 1,500 beds. They are
reportedly making 344,000 a week in taxpayer cash

Chicago's South Ogden Avenue shelter is getting $150,000 a week to hold
1,000 migrants
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Chicago's South Ogden Avenue shelter is getting $150,000 a week to hold
1,000 migrants

The Pilsen shelter is notable for an outbreak of measles that is now at
14 cases, with the city forced to mandate vaccinations
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The Pilsen shelter is notable for an outbreak of measles that is now at
14 cases, with the city forced to mandate vaccinations

'I think it's a bit more translucent than transparent. You get some
information but not the full picture,' Vazquez said.

None of the companies or landlords involved have commented on the situation.

'So I think something that we've been looking at is how to really get
more mandated reporting from the government as they're making decisions,
because our constituents are asking us those very questions,' Vazquez
added.

At least one landlord offered his building as a shelter and was set to
meet with city officials before they were told not to come on their way
to the meeting.

But when pressed on providing further transparency, Johnson dodged the
question.

'Thank you for that question,' Johnson said. 'Again, we are meeting you
right where you are.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to Mayor Johnson's office for comment.

The number of asylum seekers in city shelters appears to be falling
after peaking at 15,000 in December, when officials warned that the
system had 'reached capacity.'

A worrying 69 percent of Chicagoans disapprove of Johnson's handling of
the migrant crisis
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A worrying 69 percent of Chicagoans disapprove of Johnson's handling of
the migrant crisis

Venezuelan migrants are bused into Chicago by Texas Governor Greg Abbott
this past December
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Venezuelan migrants are bused into Chicago by Texas Governor Greg Abbott
this past December

Chicago residents have held meetings against Mayor Johnson's migrant
policy, including this event last year against his plans to turn a park
district field house into a shelter for migrants
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Chicago residents have held meetings against Mayor Johnson's migrant
policy, including this event last year against his plans to turn a park
district field house into a shelter for migrants

Arriving migrants were forced to sleep in Chicago police stations
earlier on in the crisis
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Arriving migrants were forced to sleep in Chicago police stations
earlier on in the crisis

Johnson at the time joined the mayors of New York and Denver, which are
also inundated with migrants, to call for the crisis to be declared a
federal emergency, freeing up funds to bail out the struggling cities.

Shelters in converted warehouses in Chicago have been filled to the brim
with new arrivals living in poor conditions, leading to the city
commandeering other venues.

Johnson has insisted the city would not open any more migrant shelters,
and called on Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to make good on promises to
build its own ones.

Mayor Johnson himself says the huge influx of migrants is unsustainable,
but he can't turn them away because Chicago is a 'sanctuary city'.

He blamed both the Biden Administration and Texas for his city
struggling to care for the about 15,000 asylum-seekers crammed into 28
shelters across the city.

Governor Abbott has sent more than 25,300 migrants to Chicago since
August 2022, on buses.

Chicago tried to have them arrive at designated locations during
business hours and impounding buses that didn't follow these rules.

However, bus companies responded by dropping off migrants as far as 60
miles from Chicago, and Abbott started sending them on charter flights.

Conditions in Chicago's migrant shelters have been under a microscope
since five-year-old boy Jean Carlo Martinez Rivero died on December 17.

Johnson maintained there was 'no evidence the condition of the shelter
caused the death of this young boy'.

Volunteers who try to help the asylum-seekers as best they can argue
differently, submitting lists of concerns to city officials months
before Jean's death.

Photos and videos inside the shelter where he died showed 2,300 migrants
huddled together in freezing temperatures under a leaking roof.

One video showed a young boy with what appeared to be a bandage on his
head lying on a thin fold-out bed, distracting himself with a tablet.

Another shows a different child coughing and crying as they had their
temperature taken and were examined by volunteers.

A third video showed water leaking from the roof and pooling on one of
the beds.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson REFUSES to admit how much city is paying for its
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