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Protesters rail against Chicago’s 60-day immigrant eviction policy

By Luke Gentile March 11, 2024 washingtonexaminer.com

Protesters filled Chicago’s Pritzker Park over the weekend to rail against a policy that would see immigrants evicted from shelters in the sanctuary city.

The policy is the product of warmer weather coming to the Windy City and will see Mayor Brandon Johnson enforce a 60-day maximum stay deadline regarding temporary shelters, according to a report.

Evictions are set to begin March 16, but protesters in Pritzker Park called for the policy’s reversal, chanting, “Refugees are welcome here.”

Signs at the protest said “Stop the Evictions” and “Brandon do Better,” the report noted.

“People are going to be forced out of shelter. People are going to the streets, and people are not given any direction as to how to sustain themselves, how to sustain their families,” Miguel Alvelo Rivera, executive director of the Latino Union of Chicago, said. “They want housing, but they can’t pay for it.”

Mimi Guiracocha, a nurse volunteer who was at the protest, echoed Rivera, and referred to the immigrants as “new neighbors.”

“We cannot evict our new neighbors from shelters only to set them up for failure and a second eviction,” Guiracocha said.

“We need enough funding and better living conditions inside current shelters, and then we need to increase the money that we’ve put into subsidized housing and programs and ensure that utilities and other wraparound services are covered.”

One immigrant who faces the possibility of life on the street is Reina Isabel Jerez Garcia, according to the report.

Jerez Garcia traveled to the United States from Colombia and chastised opportunities for immigrants and the conditions of the shelter where she has been living.

“They want to put us out on the street. What are we going to do when we’re on the street if we don’t have work permits? How can we get work if we’re not allowed to work,” she said. “I know Chicago is one of the richest cities in the United States, in the world. In such a rich place, why isn’t there enough for all of us?”

Forcing immigrants out of the shelters is not the sole goal of the 60-day policy, according to Johnson.

“It’s about finding placement for people. In the event that the deadline does come, people will have an opportunity to reenter into the shelter system,” the mayor said. “But the main goal, of course, is to move with expedition people on to a life of sustainability.”