Chicago’s plan to hire controversial firm to house migrants alarms critics

GardaWorld has been investigated for safety violations and was also hired by Florida to assist in that state's migrant removal program

The mayor of Chicago is at loggerheads with fellow progressives and his own Democratic state governor over the city's choice of a vexed company to erect controversial tents for asylum seekers during the bitter midwest winter - as wider tensions rise on the left at the local and national level over migration policy chaos.

While the city's mayor, Brandon Johnson, and the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, are divided over how to house thousands of migrant families currently sleeping inside and outside Chicago police stations, the two are united in fury at lack of emergency funding coming from Joe Biden's White House.

This article was amended on 7 October 2023. It originally stated that GardaWorld was the same company that bussed migrants to Texas when in fact it was not.