Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has urged President Joe Biden to grant work permits to nearly 500,000 illegal immigrants 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.
