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    Backlash to arriving migrants grows in Latino community as new shelter opens in Chicago

    by Laura Rodríguez Presa and Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune Oct 03, 2023 5 minutes
    Byron Sigcho-Lopez speaks at the beginning of a community meeting about a proposal to use an empty warehouse at 2241 S. Halsted St. as a migrant shelter, at the Benito Juarez High School auditorium, in Chicago, on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.

    CHICAGO — A new shelter opened in Pilsen Tuesday amid growing backlash from some in the Latino community who feel that immigration reform and the neighborhood’s recent property tax hike has taken a back seat to the migrant crisis.

    Just weeks after a volunteer-run shelter in Pilsen was forced to close because of a lack of funding and volunteer support, the new migrant shelter, now operated by the city, quietly opened in an empty warehouse near Cermak Road and Halsted Street. Around 4 p.m., traffic stopped on Halsted as a yellow school bus filled migrants pulled into the parking lot behind the warehouse-turned shelter.

    News of the shelter was met with mixed reaction from about 150 residents Monday night at a meeting at Benito Juarez Community Academy, where city officials advocated for the shelter as they

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