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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The border crisis is no longer just a border issue. Northern cities like Chicago are scrambling to accommodate busloads of migrants arriving daily, causing political backlash at the local and national level. Cata Truss, David Moore and Jack Beatty join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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0:00.0 | The plan is to build a winterized tent city on a vacant lot that will house 2,000 migrants. |
0:10.1 | The city of Chicago's decision to build the migrant tent base camp in the Brighton Park |
0:15.4 | neighborhood is just like every decision the city has made in the past year concerning |
0:21.0 | the migrants pouring into Chicago. |
0:24.4 | It's a decision made in crisis conditions that's pitting Chicago in against Chicago in. |
0:31.8 | That tension that divide has spilled over all across the city. |
0:37.1 | In the Brighton Park neighborhood, Chicago alder women was assaulted at a protest, and |
0:42.1 | the anger continued to pulsate in a community meeting earlier this week. |
0:46.4 | Hola. |
0:47.8 | Hola. |
0:48.4 | Mi nombre es Juliette. |
0:50.4 | Good evening. |
0:51.4 | My name is Juliette. |
0:52.4 | I have been here for about a year now. |
0:55.7 | I arrived here from my country from Colombia, seeing children without their parents, people |
1:01.2 | without a roof over their head in the winter. |
1:04.3 | This is temporary. |
1:05.3 | Please don't hate us for trying to find a better life. |
1:08.8 | We said party! |
1:09.8 | We said party! |
1:10.8 | If you're not putting a few people in here, you're not putting 200 of 300 here. |
1:17.2 | If you're putting a few thousand, they can flip this area over if they want. |
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