As more non-citizens are set to arrive in Chicago in the coming days, they’ll be greeted with military-grade tents.
Questions surrounding how the city will afford to pay for the influx of non-citizens persist as other large cities have announced budget cuts.
About 14,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago over the past year.
Chicago is a sanctuary city where enforcement of federal immigration laws is relaxed.
New York Mayor Eric Adams recently released a statement announcing that they would have to make budgetary changes to afford caring for the migrants.
“I believe that it is important that everything is on the table,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Friday about upcoming budget talks. “As far as how I am thinking about it, it really is about making sure the priorities that we set position us to grow our economy in the budgets to come.”