>>> AND NOW TO OUR TOP TONIGHT, TENSIONS FLARED TODAY AT CITY HALL AS OLDER PEOPLE WAIT A $51 MILLION PLAN TO HELP CARE FOR MIGRANTS SENT TO CHICAGO FROM TEXAS.

THE MEASURE PASSED CITY COUNCIL 30 4-13.

THE VOTE CAME AFTER AN INTIMATE, 90 MINUTE DEBATE THAT SAW TENSION BETWEEN BLACK AND LATINO CHICAGOANS.

WTTW NEWS REPORTER HEATHER SHARON JOINS US OUTSIDE CITY HALL WITH MORE.

WHAT WILL THE CITY USE THE $51 MILLION FOR?

>> THIS $51 MILLION WILL BE USED TO FEED AND SHELTER THE NEARLY 4000 MIGRANTS NOW HOUSED IN CITY SHELTERS.

IN ADDITION, IT WILL HELP MOVE THE NEARLY 500 MIGRANTS LIVING IN POLICE STATIONS ACROSS THE CITY INTO MORE PERMANENT HOUSING, OR AT LEAST TEMPORARY SHELTER.

>> SO ALDERMAN DAVID MOORE WAS ONE OF SEVEN BLACK ALDER PEOPLE WHO VOTED AGAINST THE FUNDING, ECHOING THE COMPLAINTS OF DOZENS OF BLACK CHICAGOANS WHO HAD THE MEETING TO OPPOSE THE PLAN BECAUSE OF DECADES OF DISINVESTMENT ON THE SOUTH AND WEST SIDE.

LET'S TAKE A LISTEN.

>> 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.

>> HEATHER, WHO ELSE VOTED AGAINST THIS FUNDING AND WHY?

>> SIX WHITE AND CONSERVATIVE ALDERMAN JOINED ALDERMAN DAVID MOORE IN VOTING AGAINST THIS FUNDING.

SOME OF THEM SAID THAT IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO SPEND $51 MILLION THAT WILL ONLY COVER THE CITY THROUGH THE END OF JUNE WITH MORE MIGRANTS ARRIVING EVERY DAY.

THEY WANT A LONG-TERM, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AND MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON SAID TODAY AFTER THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, HE IS STILL WORKING ON IT.

>> DESPITE SHARING SOME OF ALDERMAN MOORE'S CONCERNS, OLDER WOMAN HADN'T REACHED THE OPPOSITE CONCLUSION.

>> CONFLICT IS BEING CREATED AT A WEAK POINT IN OUR CITY AND IT'S FRUSTRATING BECAUSE THIS WEEK POINTS WOULDN'T EXIST IF OUR CITY HADN'T SPENT DECADES NOT SERVING BLACK RESIDENTS.

AND ALSO, I DO CARE ABOUT THE NEW ARRIVALS, AND I DO CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM.

WE CAN HAVE PEOPLE SLEEPING ON THE FLOORS OF POLICE STATIONS.

>> HEATHER, IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL DAY AT CITY HALL.

WHAT ROLE DID THE CROWD PLAY IN TODAY'S MEETING, THE PUBLIC?

>> YOU COULD HEAR A LITTLE BIT OF THE CROWD IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE OLDER WOMAN HAD THERE WAS SPEAKING.

THEY PLAYED A HUGE ROLE.

THEY BOOED, THEY CHEERED, THEY HISSED.

SEVERAL TIMES PEOPLE HAD TO BE ADMONISHED TO QUIET DOWN AND SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBERS.

THE PERHAPS MOST STARTLING MOMENTS WERE WHEN TWO ALDER PEOPLE, ALDERMAN LOPEZ WAS TOLD TO GO BACK TO HIS OWN COUNTRY AND ALDERMAN JEANETTE TAYLOR WAS CALLED A TRAITOR AND A SELLOUT.

OLDER WOMAN TAYLOR VOTED FOR THE FUNDING BUT NOT BEFORE DELIVERING A REALLY TEARFUL AND EMOTIONAL SPEECH ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT THIS ISSUE IS AND JUST HOW FRAUGHT THESE ISSUES ARE FOR BLACK CHICAGOANS AND LATINO CHICAGOANS.

>> HEATHER, MEANWHILE, WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE NEARLY 500 PEOPLE IN THE POLICE STATIONS IN CHICAGO?

>> THIS MONEY WILL HELP THE CITY GET THEM INTO TEMPORARY SHELTERS, BUT AS I SAID BEFORE, THERE'S STILL NO LONG-TERM PLANS TO SORT OF HELP THESE PEOPLE AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT, THAT THEY HAVE CLOTHES, AND THAT THEY'RE GETTING THE MEDICAL CARE THAT THEY NEED.

MANY ARRIVED HERE WITH NOT MUCH MORE THAN THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACK, WHICH IS