Chicago’s O’Hare Airport has gone dystopian and looks more “like a scene from Mad Max” than the illegal immigrant temporary holding area Democratic city leaders are calling it.
(Video Credit: NewsNation)
Those leftist leaders are getting hammered for hundreds of illegal immigrants being housed at O’Hare International Airport, one of the nation’s busiest airports. The unsanitary, crowded conditions more closely resemble a third-world poverty-stricken shanty town than a world-class transit hub. Some migrants describe the situation as inhumane.
The makeshift shelter is feeding the migrants instant ramen, lacks access to healthcare, has no showers and laundry, provides inadequate bedding, and has no support for placing children in schools, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
“While they find another place for us to go, some have been here for 10 days. But people keep leaving and the city of Chicago will take us and will find a place for us to stay,” Rayberth, a Venezuela migrant who has been staying at O’Hare for almost a week, told NewsNation.
“Here, we are truly in conditions that are not at all humane. There are many children sick to their stomachs and other things because the food they are being given is not adequate food,” the migrant stated.
VIDEO: This is what’s happening behind the black curtain. Our @NewsNation team obtained video of what migrants describe as “inhumane” conditions at a makeshift shelter inside Chicago’s O’Hare airport. When we asked to go inside the blocked off area, staff overseeing the migrants’… pic.twitter.com/mOk6d6VQtG
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“No one likes to live there, it’s just a process that we have to wait for. To be called and then we can leave. You are not going to be there for months, you are only there for days while the city finds a place for you,” Rayberth reiterated.
A video from NewsNation shows migrants jammed into an airport space behind black curtains. They’re sleeping on the floors and living in squalor right in the midst of travelers. The number being housed at the airport jumped from 31 in August to 433 currently.
Chicago reporter William Kelly spoke with “Fox & Friends” on Thursday concerning the devolvement of the city due to the flood of illegal immigrants swarming the sanctuary stronghold.
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“Kelly said the airport is one of only 18 migrant shelters in Chicago and that homeless Americans are no longer allowed to stay at the airport. The city previously struggled with an influx of homeless people at the airport but initiated a crackdown earlier this year after then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot faced criticism,” Fox News reported.
“Mayor Johnson campaigned as the people’s mayor. Sadly, the people are telling me that he’s the migrants’ mayor,” Kelly snarked.
The independent reporter does not believe that illegal immigrants are being subjected to the same security and background checks that the general populace is being forced to go through at airports.
The illegal immigrant inundation along with a skyrocketing crime rate and the pandemic have all strangled the Windy City as many argue the situation has been massively mishandled by leftist leadership there.
“There are millions upon millions of dollars being spent on this migrant crisis. Nobody knows where the money is going, or what it’s being spent on,” Kelly explained.
Hundreds of migrants are HIDDEN behind black curtain at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport as desperate families are left sleeping on the floor for up to 10 days after being flown in from Texas
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He’s also getting stonewalled by the mayor over the migrant crisis, “Sadly, Mayor Johnson must have taken Mayor Lightfoot’s course at Harvard on media relations, because he won’t answer my questions.”
Kelly called the situation in Chicago “horrifying on every level.”
“One of the migrant shelters in Chicago is directly across the street from my building on Michigan Avenue. So I look out the window, and it’s like a scene from Mad Max every single day,” he asserted.
“It really is a fail on every level, the police are not able to babysit the migrants and arrest the violent criminals at the same time. And so the people of Chicago are suffering,” Kelly added.
Welcome to Chicago’s O’Hare airport Aka home of the migrants. How is this acceptable?! When does Congress act?!!! #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/4IsjxqRUza
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Vianney Marzullo, who is a lead volunteer with the Police Station Response Team advocacy group, told the Chicago Sun-Times in an interview that O’Hare is allegedly just a holding place for the incoming flights that contain illegal immigrants.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Chicago is struggling to house thousands of illegal immigrants coming into the city. Approximately 14,000 migrants have arrived since August.
Chicago is home to 15 shelters for illegal immigrants. Another one is set to open in October on the South Side.
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