Chicago Mayor Demands Work Permits for Half Million Illegal Immigrants

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson urged President Joe Biden to grant work permits to nearly 500,000 illegal migrants living in the city—raising concerns among activists that the move could further erode Illinois’s already worst-in-the-nation black unemployment rate. “We need the president to extend the same economic opportunities long term for our undocumented brothers and sisters, so they can build a better life here in the city of Chicago or wherever else they decide to live,” Mr. Johnson told reporters at a roundtable with business leaders on April 4. “I want to make this emphatically clear: Chicago will never turn its back on people who wish to call the city of Chicago their home,” he added....