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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

House migrants at City Hall, police union president says

Two migrant families from Venezuela sheltering at the 1st District police station, 1718 S. State St., in Chicago in May. (Natalie Garcia/For the Sun-Times)

Fed up with having Chicago Police officers “babysit” asylum seekers, Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara on Thursday proposed an alternative to district stations: allowing hundreds of migrants to sleep in the lobbies and open hallways at City Hall.

“I don’t think there’s one single one of ’em living in City Hall — whether it’s on the county lobby floor or the City Hall floor. There’s certainly plenty of space to put a couple hundred in there, but I don’t see that happening in their workspace. But they certainly have no problem putting ’em in our workspace,” Catanzara said. “Why be a hypocrite?”

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