With summer for CPS students just a couple weeks away, dozens of migrant children staying at a temporary shelter in Little Village joined a nearby elementary school on Monday, local Ald. Mike Rodriguez said
Up to 400 Chicago migrants could be temporarily relocated to Wright College in Dunning near Portage Park as police stations remain packed.A number of elementary school-age children that recently arrived in Chicago from Central and South America and are staying at a temporary shelter in Little Village won't get much of a reprieve from cracking the books.
"Even if it's just two weeks, it's two weeks," he told the Sun-Times at an event near the school last week. "Kids should be in school."The school, near 27th Street and Kostner Avenue, is about half a mile away from where the local alderman established a temporary shelter for migrants at the Piotrowski Park earlier in the month.
"Despite the fact that this is a crisis, a man-made crisis, made by xenophobic, racist policies from southern governors, we should also look at this is as an opportunity to bring in new energy, and the revitalized immigrant spirit to our community," he said. The welcome they have received is in sharp contrast to the pushback immigrants have faced in some parts of the city.
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