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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

POLL: Chicagoans want more help for newly arrived immigrants — despite controversy over South Side shelter

A girl sits on her father’s shoulders as he speaks to a police officer while other migrants from Texas wait outside Union Station for a bus to take them to a city shelter in August. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file)

Tanisha Williams believes newly arrived immigrants — and most everyone for that matter — should be treated as your own brother, sister or mother.

It’s one of the reasons why the 50-year-old retail worker thinks City Hall should do more to provide assistance to the hundreds of people — many who are seeking asylum in the U.S. — who have arrived in recent months. Many were unexpectedly bused north by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

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