For well over a year, church officials have offered up rent-free locations to the city, potentially saving taxpayers money, but Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration has yet to act. Oak Park, on the other hand, is now housing migrants at a former Catholic school.
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The haphazard transferral of migrants not only calls into question the best use of taxpayer money and donations, but also fosters discussion about the moral obligations of faith-based groups.
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When migrants arrive in Chicago’s airports on flights paid for by Catholic Charities in San Antonio, they often have little to no money, connections or plan for what to do next. Catholic Charities in Chicago is not there to greet them because its counterpart in Texas does not coordinate with it. Few of the migrants have friends or family here to meet them. While Catholic Charities in Chicago .