Migrants face danger and exploitation if they enter the workforce illegally, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson wrote.
Migrants look out the window as they ride a CTA bus leaving the High Ridge YMCA shelter to be transferred to Daley College on June 13, 2023.
“As the asylum seekers we serve have begun to build lives for themselves and their families in Illinois, we have witnessed the dangerous work conditions and exploitation that often result when individuals lack access to legal work and the protections that come with it,” the letter says. “The precarious legal status of non-citizen workers exposes them to a higher risk of mistreatment, especially when employers wield the power to determine the legal presence of an employee.
“Today we have two buses inbound, we have a flight that should have landed a little while ago from San Antonio,” said Lori Ann Lypson, the deputy mayor for infrastructure. “We are at max capacity and we are desperate for places so families, especially children … have shelter and are not sleeping outside.”
“There’s also a lot of support from the labor community, the business community, Congressional leaders to put this pressure, because we know that that is a sustainable way that we can begin to address this situation, so that people can be on a path towards self-determination, self-sustainability,” she said. Johnson will reiterate that message at a meeting with Mayorkas this week, she said.
Immediate timing for having shelter up and running is unclear. Lypson said there is HVAC work needed inside but the facility is otherwise “up to par.”
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