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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Chicago Using COVID Funds On Migrants

The Fox News Rundown

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News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Chicago's Mayor has announced his city will be using $95M in federal COVID pandemic funds to help cover the cost of caring for migrants. Chicago has taken in over 30-thousand migrants since the Summer and is currently providing shelter and care for them. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Kelly Saberi, Chicago-based correspondent for the FOX Business Network, about the plan and how it has been received. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Stuart Vani I'm Harris Faulkner I'm Brian Kilmeade and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:05.9

Wednesday January 3rd 2024. I'm John Saussier. The border is a major issue in this election year and

0:16.2

a lot of these people who are making the dangerous trek north into the United States

0:19.8

are winding up in cities they never imagined being in.

0:23.0

That's causing financial problems for those places which aren't equipped to handle all these extra people.

0:28.0

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is saying that federal help is needed and that these cities cannot do it alone.

0:35.0

He's saying that sanctuary cities like Chicago are being targeted as such and

0:40.0

that the government needs to help them and that they're not.

0:43.1

This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.

0:46.0

How about this fact to kick off a new year?

0:52.0

At the current rate, more migrants are entering the United States each day

0:56.0

than American babies are being born.

0:58.0

A large number of those migrants are being bused to sanctuary cities by Republican governors who argue that this is a national issue.

1:05.2

Chicago is one of those sanctuary cities and now they're getting ready to throw your federal

1:09.0

tax dollars at the problem.

1:10.8

We have over 33,000 migrants that have come to the windy city from Texas all since August of

1:18.3

2022.

1:19.3

Ron today with Fox Business Network correspondent Kelly Seberry who's in Chicago.

1:23.9

Now these people are coming in different modes of transportation at this point in time.

1:28.8

As we know, some people are being brought here by plane because of the Texas government's decision to bring them to

1:35.4

sanctuary cities.

1:36.4

They also know many of them are coming by bus.

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