The city of Chicago’s push to house migrants in a closed school outrages residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood who waged a losing fight years ago to try to save Wadsworth Elementary.
Now, protesters are camping outside of the former Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn after the city moved a bus full of migrants into the building.
“One candidate for alderman is protesting over the decision by Chicago officials to temporarily house migrants at a school on the city's South Side.
Residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood have been keeping a close eye on Wadsworth Elementary after migrants moved into the school a week ago.
Neighborhood activist Andre Smith has been camping outside to protest the shelter.
He said he understands the migrants were fleeing danger in their home countries, but pointed out that immigrants should follow a process. ‘We don’t know anything about the people except they’ve fled danger in their countries’, Smith said.
One-hundred migrants moved into the former Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn on Thursday. This comes after neighborhood residents voiced opposition. Smith spent a cold night in a vacant lot to focus on homelessness in Woodlawn and to support neighbors, who wondered where the resources are for people who have lived in Woodlawn, before migrants from other countries were bussed there.
Smith is running for alderman in the 20th ward against the incumbent, Jeannette Taylor.
Taylor says Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration made these moves without her input and it continues to be controversial.
A community meeting Thursday night in Woodlawn was packed with many people not happy about the city’s decision to go ahead and open up a shelter for asylum seekers – without their input – at a vacant elementary school campus.
‘You’re pitting poor people against each other, people in the community are worried and concerned about their property taxes and devaluing their homes’, Taylor said.
Taylor says she’s seen the work orders, nearly $7 million spent on the facility and personnel to run the shelter”. -Joanie Lum, FOX32 Chicago
Every nation throughout history that was gullible enough to provide safe harbor to foreign refugees would eventually have to pay a heavy price for doing so.
Machiavelli addressed this very issue when he explained what happened to the Roman Empire when it offered refuge to the Gothic noncitizens beleaguered by the Huns in 376 AD, only to see those refugees slaughter the emperor and sack Rome within forty-four years.
“Because of the generosity the Romans displayed in giving citizenship to foreigners, so many new people were born in Rome that they began to possess a large percentage of the vote, so that the government began to change, departing from those policies and those men it was accustomed to employ. Aware of this, Quinctius Fabius, who was the censor, placed all these new people, who were the source of this disorder, within four tribes, so that they could not, reduced to such small spaces, corrupt all of Rome”. -Machiavelli, “Discourses”
Only six years after permitting hordes of Gothic refugees to cross the Danube river and enter Roman lands, the Emperor Valens and fifty thousand of his best soldiers were killed at their hands.So, instead of the Goths getting slaughtered by the Huns, the Romans were slaughtered by the Goths and had their lands laid to waste.
The lesson, as always, is that no neighborhood, city, or civilization that wishes to survive in its current form should ever permit refuge to inordinate masses seeking asylum within its borders.
It's a bit ironic that the whole concept behind the global “War on Terror” was to fight them over there so that we wouldn't have to fight them domestically. Yet, while the United States was busy militarily occupying terrorist hotspots, millions of foreign hostiles had managed to invade the homeland under the guise of pursuing sanctuary.