(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- It has been almost a year since the first busloads of migrants started arriving in Chicago, and two more buses were expected Tuesday.
Chicago city officials released the latest statistics surrounding what many agree is a crisis situation involving asylum seekers sent from the U.S. Southern Border.
The total number of migrants bused to Chicago is more than 12,000 so far.
Since Jan. 1 of this year, Chicago has received 74 busloads. Sixty-six of those buses have arrived in the past three months.
The city says 5,745 people are in shelters, including the latest building to serve as a shelter, the American Islamic College at Irving Park Road and DuSable Lake Shore Drive. That shelter has 546 migrants, most just relocated there from other shelters, such as city colleges that have commitments to serve students later this month.
The city says 959 migrants are still waiting to be placed in a shelter somewhere. Most of those migrants are now at police district stations. Several dozen are at O'Hare and three people are at Midway.
“This is an ever-growing humanitarian crisis that Chicago has not experienced before,” the Johnson Administration said in a news release. “Our commitment continues to be to decompress the police stations and move people into shelters, putting them on a path to resettlement and self-sufficiency.”
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