Chicago politicians urge federal government to provide funding to help house, care for migrants

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 Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, said the city needs support from the federal government to provide wraparound services and accused Abbott of human trafficking.

“This is a political attack that is costing people’s lives. It is very clear. We have to call this for what it is,” he said. “This is human trafficking. This is treating people’s