Chicago's O'Hare Airport overrun by "dystopian" homeless encampments

[TBoneTX 45,705]

Chicago's O'Hare Airport overrun by "dystopian" homeless encampments

 

[...] Huge numbers of illegal migrants mixed in with the city's growing homeless population have moved into the airport.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/02/15/chicagos-ohare-airport-overrun-by-dystopian-homeless-encampments-n530894

[Mike E 11,741]

In some underdeveloped countries you can’t enter the airport lobby unless your name is on a daily passenger manifest or you pay a fee.  
 

And outside the lobby it is a zoo.  

[TBoneTX 45,705]

4 hours ago, Mike E said:

In some underdeveloped countries you can’t enter the airport lobby unless your name is on a daily passenger manifest

Interesting.  Where?  And what if someone desperately has to pee?

[Mike E 11,741]

18 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Interesting.  Where?  And what if someone desperately has to pee?

Every airport I’ve used in India.  
 

Ditto Yangon airport Burma. 
 

At BLR there’s restaurants with open air seating and and toilets all outside the airport lobby. 
 

The lobby is guarded with guys with rifles.  
 

At the original BLR airport next to the Air Force base you were risking your life if you stepped outside the lobby and your driver wasn’t waiting for you.  The newer BLR is in the  sticks. So there are fewer beggars.  
 

BOM has a domestic and international terminal. They are separated by a 40 minute bus or taxi ride.  

 

I once arrived on a domestic flight and while waiting for the airside transit bus to take us to the  international terminal, and airport where tells us there is a landslide bus that will take us. So load my bag in the hold of the bus, and by the time I get into the bus it is standing room only. Ok.  
 

No not Ok.  They require everyone to sit. Unlikely every other mass transit convergence in India. So now I have exit the bus. 

 

TII

 

So get off the bus, then I block the bus until they open the hold, get my bags. Same airport worker who led U.S. down the garden path says an another bus is coming “soon.”

 

TII

 

30 minutes  later no bus. The leader of the garden  path  is no where to be found.   And of course no way to get back to airside.  My 3 hour connection is now down to 2.5 hours and I’ve a 40 minute ride ahead of me and  have to go through lobby security, check in, Indian immigration, airport security, and because flight is nonstop to U.S., another airport security screen because 3 oz/ quart  bag rules. 
 

So time to get a taxi. It resembles this:

 

 

But not nearly as shiny and clean.  It is nominally a 4 seater.  The rear seat has to contain my 250 lb / 6’1” frame. And my luggage as there isn’t really a trunk and  really don’t want my computer lap top bag in there. 
 

TII
 

We arrive and the quoted 1000 INR fare became 2000 INR upon arrival. About $30 USD at the time. 
 

TII

 

[TBoneTX 45,705]

Interesting.  But no illegals taking over any of those places?

[Mike E 11,741]

1 minute ago, TBoneTX said:

Interesting.  But no illegals taking over any of those places?

India’s  illegals  have better sense than to go anywhere near an airport that has armed guards. 
 

Most U.S. airports have CBP officers.  Remember this post from you?

 

Illegals coming to U.S. airports and self identifying as such and now CBP is told to stand down. But newly married aliens who have just filed I-485 might get hassled if  they don’t have their NOA1.  
 

TIBA

[TBoneTX 45,705]

2 hours ago, Mike E said:

Illegals coming to U.S. airports and self identifying as such and now CBP is told to stand down. But newly married aliens who have just filed I-485 might get hassled if  they don’t have their NOA1.  

The second part is absolutely true.  I know of a couple of Texas airports where CBP wouldn't stand down, so there's some hope (swimming upstream) there.

2 hours ago, Mike E said:

India’s illegals

Where would they be from?

[TBoneTX 45,705]

Another, in more detail than the OP.

Homeless Encampments Overtake Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Workers Say 'None of Us Feel Safe'

 

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/02/15/homeless-encampments-overtake-chicagos-ohare-airport-workers-say-none-of-us-feel-safe-n704354

[Dashinka 24,660]

8 hours ago, Mike E said:

Every airport I’ve used in India.  
 

Ditto Yangon airport Burma. 
 

At BLR there’s restaurants with open air seating and and toilets all outside the airport lobby. 
 

The lobby is guarded with guys with rifles.  
 

At the original BLR airport next to the Air Force base you were risking your life if you stepped outside the lobby and your driver wasn’t waiting for you.  The newer BLR is in the  sticks. So there are fewer beggars.  
 

BOM has a domestic and international terminal. They are separated by a 40 minute bus or taxi ride.  

 

I once arrived on a domestic flight and while waiting for the airside transit bus to take us to the  international terminal, and airport where tells us there is a landslide bus that will take us. So load my bag in the hold of the bus, and by the time I get into the bus it is standing room only. Ok.  
 

No not Ok.  They require everyone to sit. Unlikely every other mass transit convergence in India. So now I have exit the bus. 

 

TII

 

So get off the bus, then I block the bus until they open the hold, get my bags. Same airport worker who led U.S. down the garden path says an another bus is coming “soon.”

 

TII

 

30 minutes  later no bus. The leader of the garden  path  is no where to be found.   And of course no way to get back to airside.  My 3 hour connection is now down to 2.5 hours and I’ve a 40 minute ride ahead of me and  have to go through lobby security, check in, Indian immigration, airport security, and because flight is nonstop to U.S., another airport security screen because 3 oz/ quart  bag rules. 
 

So time to get a taxi. It resembles this:

 

 

But not nearly as shiny and clean.  It is nominally a 4 seater.  The rear seat has to contain my 250 lb / 6’1” frame. And my luggage as there isn’t really a trunk and  really don’t want my computer lap top bag in there. 
 

TII
 

We arrive and the quoted 1000 INR fare became 2000 INR upon arrival. About $30 USD at the time. 
 

TII

 

Reminds me of a trip to Boston.  When leaving, took a taxi from the hotel to the airport, when we got to Logan, the taxi driver said he could not open the trunk to get my bags out (the key core was missing).  Now this was 1991, and me being an engineer, I was very doubtful as vehicles back then without a key core in the trunk could easily be popped open.  He told me he would head back to the garage and forward my bags to me.  I flatly refused and actually had to stand in front of the taxi to keep him from leaving, he got his dispatcher on the radio and he tried to convince me I could trust everything would be alright.  Eventually and airport police officer noticed what was happening and came up.  At that point the driver produced an extra large flathead screwdriver and popped the truck.  I do wonder now (I don't remember the name), if this driver was named Brinton.

[Mike E 11,741]

6 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

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Where would they be from?

AFAICT, mostly over stays from Nigeria and illegal entrants from Bangladesh.  

[TBoneTX 45,705]

6 hours ago, Mike E said:

AFAICT, mostly over stays from Nigeria and illegal entrants from Bangladesh.  

Who'd a-thunk it.  Interesting.