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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Should Chicago stay a sanctuary city?

Migrants wave as a bus leaves Union Station to take them to a refugee center in August 2022. Since then, thousands more migrants have been bused to Chicago from Texas. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Branding the migrant crisis a “bottomless pit” threatening to swallow taxpayers, Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) wants to give voters their first opportunity ever to determine whether Chicago remains a sanctuary city.

Beale plans to introduce a resolution asking his City Council colleagues to put a binding referendum on the March ballot, asking this question: “Should the city of Chicago continue to keep its designation as a Sanctuary City?”

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