The crisis is causing anxiety about the potential fallout heading into the 2024 election cycle.
CHICAGO — Democratic strongholds are struggling to keep helping the surge of migrants in their cities and states — and it’s sparking anxiety in the party about potential fallout heading into the 2024 election cycle.
“You’re hearing sentiments that are not dissimilar from what you would hear at [Donald] Trump rallies where asylum-seekers are referred to as illegals,” Chicago Alderperson Andre Vasquez, who heads the Chicago City Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said in an interview. “There are people who are saying ‘the Democratic Party isn’t doing anything for us’ and ‘look at what we’re stuck with.
Immigrants from Venezuela take shelter at the Chicago Police Department's 16th District station in May 2023. | Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo With a presidential election year looming, the situation poses a threat to Biden’s campaign and to battleground congressional candidates across the country. Republicans almost daily hit Biden over the border, and images of migrants crossing into the U.S. are a constant on Fox News. Democratic leaders like Adams are also unrestrained in their criticism of the president for not providing more assistance to help handle the influx of migrants.
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