Community leaders in the City of Chicago have a plan to “boost the city’s effort to keep unhoused citizens off the streets.” They want to roll their homeless shelter program in with providing services to wayward migrants. That way, they can bill FEMA for their efforts and get actual American citizens off the street at the same time.
Chicago finds a solution
Chicago found a way to make some lemonade out of the asylum seeking migrant lemons they had delivered to their doorstep. “Community leaders are expected to outline recommendations Thursday to combine the city’s homeless shelter system with the system for migrants.”
Local citizens are outraged that migrants have been prioritized for services over American citizens rightfully entitled to them. They had problems finding food and shelter even before all the foreigners blew in to the windy city.
The big meeting to announce the idea is being hosted by Deborah’s Place, “which helps women experiencing homeless with permanent housing and other services.” They invited “city and state officials along with stakeholders” to be on hand.
The event is being promoted as a way to “unveil their plans” to combine the “legacy homeless shelter system” Chicago already had “with the system for migrants.”
Their “One System Initiative,” city officials proclaim “is the newest effort by the city to help both the unhoused and asylum-seekers here in Chicago.” They’ve been working on it for months.
The back and forth negotiations have been relentless between “city and state officials and homeless and service advocates about how to turn the two systems into a unified shelter structure.”

Wrap around services
Back in September 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott “began sending asylum-seekers to the city to make a point about strained resources in border towns.” Chicago quickly figured out exactly what he was talking about.
They were so overwhelmed they set up tent camps in the lobbies of their police stations, with overflow spilling out along the sidewalks.
Since then, “homeless advocates have pushed the idea” of combining all the shelter needs for everyone under one umbrella program. That, the experts claim, “would serve both the unhoused and new arrivals with wrap around services like jobs, food and healthcare.” The best part is that they can send FEMA the bill.
Whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency can pay it or not is the administration’s problem. It’s not the fault of Chicago that they already spent all their hurricane and fire disaster relief money for the whole year on the migrants. Before the hurricane and fire season.
Executives with Deborah’s Place “aren’t submitting any recommendations Thursday.” They did that already. Now, they’re “merely hosting the event.” They think established residents of Chicago will love the idea.
“Combining those two systems will increase efficiency and will allow those who are in the homeless service who have been doing this for many years to do what we do best, to help those who have newly arrived.” By getting federal money for each migrant, they can finally provide food and beds to less fortunate Chicago citizens.