Meanwhile, in Naperville
-
Paywall...or at least "sign-up wall."
Here's another take:
https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-suburb-official-suggests-locals-163934123.html
“I think we live in a compassionate community,” Naperville Council member Josh McBroom said at a city council meeting on 16 January, before recommending that his staff “create a sign-up sheet for individuals that would be willing to house migrant families”.
“We hear from people that we should do more,” Mr McBroom said. “We do have a very affluent community, a lot of big homes.”
Although the city council member said that he doesn’t support using taxpayer money to fund migrant aid, he sought volunteers to house migrants.
“If there are people who can do that, God bless them,” he said.
The Naperville City Council spokesperson Linda LaCloche told The Independent that staff were asked to “prepare a future agenda item so Council may consider whether to create a sign-up opportunity for residents to volunteer to host migrants.” But the date of when that initiative will be discussed has not yet been determined.
I haven't looked too closely, but judging from Josh McBroom's twitter feed, it looks like he proposed this out of sarcasm.
-
Similar to the reaction when Congress found illegal migrates on the Capitol steps. Wait, I thought this was a border state problem. Reality check.
-
Six migrants from Venezuela and Chile stole over $10,000 from a Macy’s in a suburb of Chicago in two separate retail theft incidents on Tuesday, authorities said.
The retail thefts occurred at the Macy’s department store located at 1 Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook, a store that has been plagued with a string of thefts and burglaries by migrants in recent months.
"I believe that six felony arrests in one day illustrates that migrant criminal activity is a real problem," Oak Brook Chief of Police Brian Strockis said in a written statement on Wednesday.
-
The part you didn't quote:
During their first court appearance Wednesday, prosecutors said a judge denied the state’s motion to detain the defendants.
-
The part you didn't quote:
During their first court appearance Wednesday, prosecutors said a judge denied the state’s motion to detain the defendants.
-
@George-K They will never be seen again.
@taiwan_girl said in Meanwhile, in Naperville:
@George-K They will never be seen again.
A note on semi-local politics.
DuPage county (about 14 miles west of Chicago is mostly upper-middle class. Pretty conservative area, though not politically, certainly when it comes to law enforcement.
I'm surprised the at a DuPage judge let these people go.
