Editorial: Chicago's new mayor inherits the migrant crisis. Does he have a plan? Will he share it?

It was widely expected that massive numbers of migrants would stream into the U.S. following the expiration Thursday of Title 42, the COVID-19-era policy that allowed border authorities to rapidly return most migrants who had crossed into the U.S. illegally. Instead, the border has been relatively quiet, with roughly 4,200 migrants detained Saturday and 6,300 on Sunday. That’s a drop from peaks as high as 11,000 detentions earlier last week, just before the pandemic policy’s expiration.

But that’s hardly solace for Chicago, where migrants have been sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on police station floors and jammed into shuttered schools, Park District field houses