Crime is through the roof, drug use is rampant, and the police are cowed, defensive, and defanged. But now the city, in its infinite Marxist/Leninist wisdom has found a new use for the police stations that have become largely ceremonial in outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (and soon to be incoming Mayor Brandon Johnson’s) Chicago: they’re being used to shelter illegal migrants. How wonderfully fitting.

Fox News reported Wednesday that “Chicago police sources say that their stations have become shelters for migrants, with at least two police precinct lobbies housing asylum seekers.” How enlightened! How progressive! Now New York and Los Angeles and Seattle and all the rest don’t want to be outdone by the Windy City, do they? They should go even further and actually evict the remaining police officers in their embattled stations and convert them all into full-time migrant shelters.

Chicago hasn’t gone that far. At least not yet. That could be incoming Mayor Johnson’s first act: consistent with Chicago’s proud status as a “sanctuary city,” he could fire the cops, clear out all law enforcement material from the stations, and turn them over entirely to the migrants. After all, what is happening now is a human rights outrage that must not stand.

The migrants, according to Fox, “have been sleeping in the stations’ entryways. The immigrants, who do not have access to showers or adequate bathrooms, are often sick and vomiting.” And yet there are police officers — police officers, every last one of them a symbol of the racist and oppressive old order against which Chicago so resolutely stands — occupying space in the same building. Clear them out! In the name of humanity, they must go!