CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Some residents of Brighton Park continue to protest at the site where the City is working on what's expected to be a winterized migrant base camp that could house 2,000 people.
At the 10-acre site at 38th and California, dump trucks rolled in and out and a small group of protestors stood at one entrance. Some were immigrants, themselves.
Signs read "No Shelter in Chicago" and "We Need to be Heard." One read "We Are Uneasy and Scared."
"I'm scared. I'm afraid to be on the right corners or anything, with all these people I don't know. They don't understand me. I don't understand their language," one woman told WBBM.
"We're not against them, but we're not with them either," said a man who opposes the camp.
That man said while they stood at an entrance to the lot, they moved when police told them to move.
Many passing drivers honked in support of the protestors.
A lawsuit has been filed by a neighborhood group over environmental concerns about what's being stirred up in the soil on the site.
Tuesday's rally is the latest in a series of public opposition.
Less than two weeks ago, about 200 residents marched through the neighborhood to protest the prospect of a migrant camp site. That came on the heels of a contentious public meeting, in which residents voiced their disdain.
How many were coming to Chicago?" resident Richard Zupkus asked. "Where are we going to put them? Right now, they're sending about 50,000, maybe $100,000 per newly arrived. We don't have that kind of money," Zupkus said.
Mayor Johnson said an environmental study is being done at the site.
WBBM's Nancy Harty contributed to this report.
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