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(Chicago Tribune) But instead, Hassly was turned away from the school Monday morning with seven other elementary school-aged kids who are staying with their migrant families at the 3rd District police station, despite filling out paperwork, according to Britt Hodgdon, a volunteer at the 2nd and 3rd District police stations.

“Kids are showing up with rotting teeth and active fevers and malnutrition and they’re not receiving care here,” said Hodgdon. “And then on top of that we’re now refusing them education and all of the things that come with that.” (snip)

“The District was provided with information about children staying at police stations within the past few business days and is developing a plan to incorporate enrollment procedures for those families who are staying at police stations. We consider those families to be part of the estimated 1,000 students that we are in the process of enrolling,” the statement said. “We are working with urgency and are dedicated to enrolling as many families as quickly as we can. This includes deploying mobile units to local police stations and other temporary shelters this week to ensure all children are provided access to our services.”

That’s right, the city has the illegals/migrants staying at Chicago police stations. Around 1,100 of them

(Chicago Sun Times) Fed up with having Chicago police officers “babysit” asylum-seekers, Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara on Thursday proposed an alternative to district stations: allowing hundreds of migrants to sleep in the lobbies and open hallways at City Hall.

“I don’t think there’s one single one of ’em living in City Hall — whether it’s on the county lobby floor or the City Hall floor. There’s certainly plenty of space to put a couple hundred in there, but I don’t see that happening in their workspace. But they certainly have no problem putting ’em in our workspace,” Catanzara said. “Why be a hypocrite?”

Catanzara said it was “so ridiculous” that “there’s actually mail. Migrants are using police district addresses to receive their mail. They now have CPS out there recruiting migrant children to register for CPS just to have that number in the next two weeks to grab as much tax revenue as they possibly can. Whether these kids come to school or not, they don’t care. This is all a big game to far too many people.”

How about putting some up at the mayor’s house? Of course, that’s on the high-toned and fancy-todo upper west side, in the Austin neighborhood. Can’t have them trashing up that area.

Chicago officials finally release records on millions spent to help migrants

Next week will mark a year since buses carrying asylum seekers began arriving in Chicago.

CBS 2 spent more than six months fighting for information about how taxpayer money is being spent to help migrants. CBS 2’s Lauren Victory is always investigating and shared what she’s uncovered after the city finally handed over a list of invoices.

Earlier this month, CBS 2 reported on the city’s blatant lack of transparency about migrant spending. The report struck a chord and received a big response on social media.

Good on CBS 2 for doing Journalism. And they worked hard, getting stonewalled constantly by the city government, lied to, put off. They finally got those records

The records included vendor names, invoice numbers, and paid amounts. The information accounted for $83 million out of the $110 million spent on migrant care so far. At least 40 different companies and organizations received money.

Imagine what the city could do with $110 million for the residents, for the roads, on stopping crime, on dealing with the homeless. They’re learning that their belief in unfettered illegal immigration comes with a cost to themselves, not just down at border towns.