Chicago politicians are calling for the federal government to increase funding for migrant care after earlier this week a 5-year-old boy staying at a Lower West Side shelter died and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent migrants to the city for the first time on a chartered plane. At a news conference Thursday outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building downtown, Ald. Byron .
The pleas come after a 5-year-old boy staying at a shelter died and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent migrants to the city for the first time on a chartered plane.
The family of a 5-year-old migrant boy who fell ill at an overcrowded Pilsen shelter and died were under the care of a city-funded organization in Little.
Hundreds gathered at a vigil for Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, leaving flowers and balloons at a memorial on the sidewalk. ‘He was a beautiful boy, he was always happy.’