mark is here, village president of glen ellyn and joins us now.ark, thanks so much for coming on with us. >> thanks for having me. >> obviously you have seen this is a huge problem in the city of chicago. there has been a large number of migrants sent to that city and the mayor has said we can't keep doing this. so, is it an effort on the part of the city, then, to send some of these migrants out to the suburbs, to try to have them help them and deal with the crisis. what are you seeing? >> let me begin by saying the $11 million offered was not for glen ellyn, but for all the communities surrounding chicago. it's just not for us, it's to settle migrants in the surrounding communities. i'm not sure what the motive is. but from my standpoint, we decided not to apply, primarily as of now, the deadline has passed. so it became available on the 16th of january, we had until the 31st to apply and i just did not see a plan that was being put in place that would allow us to make this a workable solution. one of the problems i have, i don't have physically

we just highlighted a doctor in glen ellyn the other day, he works so hard and scrapes by to feed his own family and a beautiful town, he wants it to stay that way. but chicago is so overwhelmed, spilling out into the communities, and sending them to the suburb, they don't have the space to deal with it, pleading with the city council not to accept state funding that would give the migrants permanent residency in their little town. this is happening everywhere, and i didn't hear acknowledgment from the president to the millions of americans who are dealing with this in their own back yards. >> there has been a real turn, a real changing point in the way americans view this border crisis, really in the past year after a couple of years of the biden presidency. and basically what happened was, when you have 6 to 8 million people cross into the united states, they're not all gonna stay in eagle pass. they are gonna come into the rest of the country, they have a friend in philadelphia, they know somebody in oklahoma, they need to go further north in arizona. they have destinations. and wh