Three Chicago City aldermen visiting El Paso, Texas, said Wednesday that they want a federal disaster declaration for the federal government to provide more help for their city to deal with the influx of illegal migrants.
"We've done everything we could, and now it's time for the federal government to declare Chicago a federal disaster zone, with that comes millions of dollars that will be used to house, used to provide wrap-around services and not-for-profits can step in and work beside the city," 6th Ward Alderman Will Hall told Chicago ABC 7 while visiting the border city Wednesday.
The officials will head to San Antonio on Friday where two daily flights transport migrants to their city, the report said. According to the news outlet, the number of daily Customs and Border Protection encounters has dropped during October from 620 a day now compared with 1,162 daily earlier in the month.
"We do have a large number of individuals as well as families that have the desire to go that direction along with New York and Denver, those seem to be the top three at this point," John Martin, the Deputy Director for the Opportunity Center for the Homeless in El Paso, told the station. " opens up that dialogue, it gives us the opportunity to understand them a little bit better and looking outside of the media.
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