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Chicago Takes Action on the Migrant Crisis. But Are the Voters Any Happier?
A group of migrants at a Migrant Landing Zone in Chicago in January. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Mayor Brandon Johnson says he is getting tough. Not tough enough, according to these Chicagoans.
By Oliver Wiseman
03.20.24 — U.S. Politics
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In January, Free Press staff writer Olivia Reingold met the Chicagoans furious at their city’s handling of the migrant crisis. 

(Read her dispatch: “They’re Black Democrats. And They’re Suing Chicago Over Migrants.”

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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