STOMACH THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL APPROVED $61 MILLION FOR MIGRANT CARE THIS WEEK, BUT THE LEAD UP TO THAT VOTE WAS INTENSE, EMOTIONAL, AND INCLUDED RACIALLY CHARGED REMARKS FROM AUDIENCE MEMBERS.

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE IS ALDER PERCY JESS IN FRONT SAYS, AND ALDERMEN BY AS WHO REPRESENTS THE 25th WARD.

WE REACHED OUT TO SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE WHO VOTED AGAINST THE MEASURE, BUT THEY DECLINED HER INVITATION TO APPEAR.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE VERY MUCH.

ALDER PERSON FLIGHT TEST, WHY THE INTENSE OPEN DEBATE?

>> I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT WE SAW YESTERDAY FROM A HISTORICAL LENS.

WE HAVE BLACK COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE CITY OF CHICAGO THAT HAVE SEEN CENTURIES OF DISINVESTMENT.

WE HAVE UNHOUSED ACROSS THE CITY OF CHICAGO THAT HAVE NOT RECEIVED RESOURCES.

WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ALLOCATING $51 MILLION TO THE CITY OF CHICAGO, WE HAVE RESIDENTS ACROSS THE CITY OF CHICAGO THAT ARE PRETTY ANGRY, THAT THEY ALSO NEED RESOURCES.

WE VOTED FOR SOMETHING THAT WE HAD TO VOTE FOR BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, BUT WE ALSO HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO SEEK VERY SIMILAR, AND IN FACT, MASHED FARMERS SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITIES AND THE UNHOUSED IN CHICAGO.

>> THE DEBATE HAD MUCH TO DO WITH LARGELY AFRICAN AMERICAN RESIDENTS AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY WHO SAID BASICALLY, WHY ARE YOU SPENDING MONEY ON PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING TO CHICAGO WHEN HISTORICALLY OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE NOT HAD THE SAME DEGREE OF INVESTMENT AND SUFFERED FROM NEGLECT.

THE RESOURCES SHOULD COME HERE PICK SOME OF THOSE REMARKS WHERE DIRECTED TOWARDS YOU.

ONE PERSON YELLED OUT, QUOTE, GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THE INTENSITY, THIS VITRIOL TO YOU AND OTHER MEMBERS DURING THE MEETING.

>> I AGREE WITH ALDER PERSON FUENTES.

WHEN WE LOOK AT THE REACTION HISTORICALLY , I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE DISPARITIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND THE SUFFERING RIGHT NOW WITH VIOLENCE AND FOOD INSECURITY AND POVERTY.

IT AFFECTS THE MOST POOREST AREAS OF THE CITY PICK AT THE SAME TIME, SOME OF THE ELEMENTS THAT WERE THERE, SPECIFICALLY AROUND THESE REMARKS, WERE PAID ORGANIZERS THAT CAME WITH A SPECIFIC AGENDA FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

I THINK THEY WERE BEING SET UP WITH A PARTICULAR GOAL THIS ELECTION SEASON.

WE HAVE TO BE CLEAR THAT SOME OF THOSE REMARKS ARE NOT ENTIRELY REALLY A CHARACTERISTIC OF WHAT PEOPLE SEE IN THE COMMUNITIES.

OUR COMMUNITIES, MANY CONSTITUENTS AND CHICAGO, BUT WE WANT HIS PEOPLE TO WORK TOGETHER.

WE WANT THE BLACK CAUCUS TO WORK WITH THE LATINO CAUCUS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS.

WE ALSO NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE INHERITING A BIG MESS.

MANY OF THE RESIDENTS ARE REALLY SO UPSET ABOUT THE SOUTH SHORE.

WAS REPURPOSED WITHOUT CONSENT OR CONVERSATION, SO I UNDERSTAND THAT MANY OF THESE RESIDENTS SAY, BUT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, ESPECIALLY WITH THESE REMARKS, THAT SHOULD NOT BE THINKING IT'S THE SENTIMENT IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

>> WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO LOOK INTO THAT FURTHER AND DISCUSS IT WITH YOU, YOUR ASSERTION OF WHO IS BEHIND IT, BUT ALDERMAN DAVID MOORE VOTED NO ON THE MEASURE, AND LET'S LISTEN TO HIS REASONING.

>> I'M REMINDED WHEN THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT SAYS ON THE PLANE, IN AN EMERGENCY, MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR MASK ON FIRST BEFORE YOU HELP SOMEONE ELSE, SO WE HAVE TO PUT OUR MASK ON FIRST, AND WE HAVE TO HELP THE RESIDENTS OF THIS GREAT CITY.

>> ALDERMAN FUENTES , DOES HE HAVE A POINT?

>> I BELIEVE THAT HE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO LISTEN TO HIS CONSTITUENTS, AND HAVE A PERSPECTIVE, BUT THERE IS A PERSPECTIVE I RESPECT MORE AND THAT WAS ALDERMAN JEANETTE TAYLOR AND THAT HURT PEOPLE CANNOT HURT PEOPLE.

THEY HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO SUPPORT FOLKS THAT NEED HER HELP.

BUT WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND HAVE MORE WORK TO DO.

WE HAD CONVERSATIONS YESTERDAY IN THE LATINO CAUCUS AND HOW WE HAVE TO BE IN PARTNERSHIP AND IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR BLACK CAUCUS SIBLINGS IN CITY COUNCIL AND MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET COMING UP, WE WILL BE NEGOTIATING THAT SOON IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS THAT WE HAVE OUR BLACK CAUCUS MEMBERS IN MIND AND WE HAVE THE WESTIN SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITIES IN MIND, AND THAT WE DO NOT FORGET THE SOLIDARITY THEY SHOWED US YESTERDAY.

>> YOU ALLUDED TO ALDERMAN JEANETTE TAYLOR.

HERE IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY IN PART.

>> I'VE GOT A COMMUNITY THAT'S DIVIDED.

I'VE BEEN GETTING CALLS FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS, YOU SHOULD VOTE ON THIS.

YOU SHOULDN'T.

THIS IS WRONG.

IT'S ALL WRONG.

SAYING NO DOESN'T MEAN THAT I WANT TO HURT MIGRANT FAMILIES.

VOTING YES DOES NOT MEAN I DON'T CARE ABOUT BLACK CHICAGO.

>> AND SHE WENT ON TO VOTE YES IN A VERY IMPASSIONED PRESENCE.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT NOW, IS THERE TENSION BETWEEN BLACK AND LATINO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ?

DID THIS MAKE THINGS WORSE?

DID THIS CREATE A SCHISM?

>> I THINK THAT NATURALLY THE TENSION WHEN THERE IS NO SOLUTION BUT WHEN THERE IS NO PLAN RIGHT NOW, THE MIGRANT CRISIS, LAST YEAR BACK IN SEPTEMBER, THAT WE NEEDED TO TAKE ACTION, ESPECIALLY AS WE SEE THAT TITLE 42 IS LIFTED.

>> WHAT IS THAT?

>> TITLE 42 HAD A LOT OF RESTRICTIONS IN TERMS OF HOW MIGRANTS WERE ON THE BORDER, AND I THINK WHEN TITLE 42 IS LIFTED, WE KNEW THERE WAS GOING TO BE AN INFLUX OF PEOPLE.

WE SAW THAT INFLUX OF PEOPLE AND THE CITY WAS COMPLETELY UNPREPARED.

THERE WAS NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE PIECE OF PAPER IN THE ADMINISTRATION TO TAKE THIS UP.

WE HAD ENOUGH TIME.

THE TENSIONS ARE REAL.

WE SEE OF COURSE THE FRUSTRATION FROM RESIDENCE WHO SEE THE CITY, THE VIOLENCE THAT GETS WORSE AND WORSE.

AGAIN WE NEED SOLUTIONS.

I THINK THE TENSIONS RISE BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T SEE A FUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT.

THEY DON'T SEE A SOLUTION, NAC POLITICAL PARTIES PLAYING GAMES WITH PEOPLE'S LIVES.

AGAIN AS THE MAYOR MENTIONED, IT WAS REALLY REMARKABLE HOW THEY HANDLED IT DEMOCRATICALLY IN SPITE OF THE CHALLENGES, AND IVORY ASSERT MY EVIDENCE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS A SET AGENDA, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO NOT LET THE FREE MONGERING DIVIDE US.

>> ALDERMAN FUENTES I WILL CLOSE WITH YOU , BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE MENTIONED BEFORE WE STARTED SPEAKING IS THAT MOSTLY MIGRANTS HAVE BEEN FROM VENEZUELA.

HOW EXACTLY IS THE MONEY GOING TO BE USED?

>> WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT CAN PROVIDE MEALS, TRANSPORTATION, CLOTHES FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE UN- SHELTERED.

WE KNOW THIS IS A DROP IN THE BUCKET.

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE TYPE OF SUPPORT THAT OUR NEW ARRIVALS NEED, BUT WE ARE ALSO GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE REACHING OUT TO OUR FEDERAL COLLEAGUES AND STATE COLLEAGUES, BECAUSE OTHER