In a totally unsurprising revelation, illegal immigrants in Chicago claim they are treated better at police stations in the Windy City where they have camped out for weeks than they are in government-run shelters where conditions are reportedly much worse.

The Chicago Tribune sent reporters to a police station to spend the night and speak with migrants who are housed there.

When the illegal immigrants were asked by a city official if they would like to be transferred to an actual shelter, all of them said they would rather stay at the police station where they were treated better and felt safer. They claimed their friends had told them that conditions in the government-run shelters were much worse.

Ironically, Chicago officials have spent an additional $51 million on migrant care over the last month as thousands of illegal immigrants have flooded Chicago. Now, they are ostensibly looking into more “sustainable solutions.”

Police Stations all across Chicago tonight are overwhelmed with homeless migrants who are continually arriving everyday.

Hundreds have been sleeping & eating on the floors – putting severe strain on officers who are trying to carry out their daily law enforcement duties. pic.twitter.com/oqiSca93tu

— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) May 22, 2023

Chicago officials have claimed over and over that they cannot afford to rent hotel rooms for the more than 10,000 migrants who have arrived since August. They have nowhere to go so, in an unprecedented move, they started sending them to police stations.

Chicago is yet one more “sanctuary city” led by Democrats. It has received busloads of illegal immigrants from the US-Mexico border because of accepting that label.

There are now 4,878 migrants in Chicago city-run shelters and 460 more waiting for placement inside police stations as of Friday, according to Office of Emergency Management and Communications spokeswoman Mary May who spoke with the Chicago Tribune.

May claimed that police district census numbers are pored over every morning and so-called “decompression” decisions on who gets to leave the stations are based on the volume of migrants at each station, the needs of those with special circumstances, availability of space, and transportation.

Trash and belongings of migrants are piling up in and outside the several police stations I visited across Chicago. Some precincts have migrants bring their items outside to to help control or prevent bed bugs.

I’m told just about every station is like this across the city. pic.twitter.com/GzY77gGvbX

— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) May 22, 2023

“Individuals receive a service number request number from 311 upon arrival in the system. This helps with tracking when they arrive,” May asserted.

“As new arrivals and asylum-seekers continue to arrive in Chicago via bus and other means, city officials are working simultaneously to identify spaces to convert into temporary shelters and to assist individuals and families in identifying more permanent housing opportunities,” she added.

Those migrants with “medical or special needs, families, or singles with other critical needs such as pregnancy” receive priority for temporary shelter in Chicago.

Even when the number of illegal immigrants needing shelter declines, it doesn’t last long as more arrive in Chicago every day according to May. Almost two dozen buses have arrived from Texas since May 9.

(Video Credit: Daily Mail)

In early May, city officials sent approximately 38 migrants to the 5th District station. About a dozen remain there currently.

A volunteer brings them to a construction site to work every day. Another brings them to a different location to shower twice or three times a week according to the Daily Mail. They are living off of boxed sandwiches and non-perishables at the police station.

Numerous Chicago police stations are serving as makeshift shelters for migrants and are dealing with bed bugs, illnesses, food and basic healthcare shortages.

Some migrants I spoke with have been here from days to weeks and don’t know where they will go. pic.twitter.com/f6xnqrwmpN

— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) May 22, 2023

Carlos Ramirez, who was a police officer in Venezuela before arriving in the United States, says he was persecuted by government officials and now sleeps on an air mattress on the floor of a police station in Chicago.

“We’re not here because we want to be. I want to leave,” his wife Betzabeth Bracho told the Tribune. “My husband goes out every day to find work. I go out every day to find work. I’d like to tell them we’re trying to make money so we can move out as quickly as possible. It’s not easy living here.”

But when she was approached to relocate to a city-run shelter, Bracho and others at the station declined, citing a job where they can make up to $150 a day and that the shelters were far worse to live in.

Illegal immigrants in nine different shelters told the Tribune that they are crowded together in hotel rooms or sleeping on the ground, eating cold and unappetizing meals, and are unsure of where to find resources to help them.

Volunteers are also claiming that they are being barred from entering shelters to give the migrants donations of clothes and hot meals, according to the Daily Mail.

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