Move Around With Deborah - Fleeing Your HomeTo Seek Asylum In Another Country?

What do you do when it becomes too dangerous to stay in your home, and you must take whatever you can carry and flee? What if you have to leave the country of your birth and seek asylum in another country, among people who speak a different language? When your very survival forces you to travel by whatever means you can - by foot, by boat, by truck, by the back of a donkey, whatever you have - you learn to appreciate the compassion of strangers. Today we talk to some of the elected officials of Chicago who find themselves in the middle of a controversy regarding immigrants who have been transported to Chicago and are seeking asylum. They are being temporarily housed in police stations while more permanent housing is being considered from the conversion of currently vacant buildings. But some Chicago residents are protesting that the longtime homeless population should be considered for housing and services first, before the immigrants. Is there enough room and enough resources for everybody?