“Build the wall” hasn’t been a sentiment often heard in South Side Chicago.

But someone held a sign calling for the barrier, while other residents shouted, “Close the border” and the like, during a community meeting in South Shore about a former high school potentially getting turned into a facility for immigrants lacking permanent legal status.

Rich Lowry is editor-in-chief of National Review, a conservative news and opinion magazine.

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