Despite Chicago's migrant crisis, Chicago City Council's Immigration Committee didn't meet for a year

I don't believe there is a worse big city legislature in America than Chicago's City Council. 

This ridiculous boy averages a conviction in federal court once every 16 months or so. 

More from Block Club Chicago:

From the time buses full of migrants began arriving in Chicago last summer, city officials scrambled to find them places to stay. And even when they did, officials often failed to communicate their plans to alderpeople, advocates or other community residents.

Yet as the pace of arrivals built into a humanitarian crisis, the City Council committee responsible for overseeing immigration issues didn’t ask questions or propose solutions.

In fact, for more than a year, the council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights didn’t meet once, though it is tasked with making sure immigrants are treated humanely. By the time the committee finally convened in late April, the migrant crisis was overwhelming Chicago’s social service systems.

With nowhere else to go, families ended up sleeping on police station floors. City officials have turned shuttered schools and park field houses into makeshift shelters, and more migrants are on the way from border states.

And did the committee take action? No, Block Club Chicago says.