Some of the Chicagoans who attended Wednesday’s city council meeting were not feeling so generous to illegal aliens being bussed into the city as others were feeling. The Chicago Police Department had to escort some attendees out of the room two times, so that everyone could take a two-minute breather, as the new mayor called it. “I want to make sure we are conducting the business of the people,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

The funding is only expected to last through June. The vote passed 34-13.

The city council voted in favor of funding housing for the illegal aliens to the tune of $51M and some black members of the audience thought that money should be spent on black Chicago residents first. Apparently, in Chicago, black people get money for being black.

Aldermen were split on which way to vote, with some saying that money should go to underfunded neighborhoods and others saying this is a sanctuary city that must help those seeking asylum.

“We have to help the residents of this big city; it’s not an either or. It’s both,” 17th Ward Alderman David Moore said.

Black alderman struggled with their vote. One asked the community members that help migrants to help Chicagoans in need with the same energy and that means providing financial aid, too.

Another said that just because black people fought for a seat at the table doesn’t mean they shouldn’t help others in need.

City Council Budget Committee Chairman Jason Ervin said the city must come up with a plan. “There does need to be a greater plan, and I think this was always designed to give the incoming administration an opportunity to do that. This is a stop-gap measure pure and simple,” Ervin said

The question from some was where is the money coming from and where is it going? Chicago’s Republican leaders (who knew?) and members of the Black Community Collaborative and Neighborhood Network Alliance teamed up and held a press conference to ask the alderman to vote no.

“We don’t know where that money is coming from,” said Steve Boulton, Chicago Republican Party chairman. “We are not being told where that money is going to be spent. We are not being told how it is being spent. It is irresponsible for the City Council to appropriate what is no more than stop gap money that will get us through a month or two and then the problem will still be staring at us in the face.”

Chicago isn’t getting as much money from the state as it expected. In the new budget, the state legislature approved over $42M in migrant aid for the entire state. That leaves less for Chicago.

Since last August, more than 10,000 “asylum seekers” have arrived in Chicago. Hundreds now sleep on floors in city police departments.

Them’s the breaks when the city declares itself a sanctuary city. When the Mayor makes a big deal of saying everyone is welcome in the city, no questions about legal status in this country necessary, then the city is held responsible for their care. Virtue-signaling is expensive. Biden’s border crisis is putting the squeeze on every state, some more than others.