Several hundred Chicago residents protested the city's plan to house illegal immigrants at a public two-year university in the community, which is slated to start next week.

Residents packed out a school auditorium in northwest Chicago on Tuesday night and blasted city officials for plans to house several hundred people in the neighborhood to alleviate pressure on packed police stations that have turned into shelters.

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“Right now, Wright College is the solution that we need," said Matt Doughtie, emergency coordinator with Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications.

Under the proposal, 400 primarily Venezuelan immigrants who illegally crossed the Mexico border and were released into the interior of the United States and chose to continue to Chicago will be housed in the Wilbur Wright College gymnasium for three months, starting June 1.

City officials have struggled to house people, prompting this new action. Immigrants could move into the gymnasium as soon as Memorial Day weekend.

Immigrants would be allowed to come and go from the school, which prompted safety concerns from attendees, all of whom had to prove they were local residents to be admitted into the discussion.

Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Stephen Chung said the department would add patrols in the area while the immigrants were on campus and said incidents at other respite shelters have been “minimal.”

“You can’t even respond to 911 calls now,” one attendee yelled.

"We love people, but this is an absolute slap in the face to those who came here legally," a second person said.

"Why don't we put them in Lincoln Park? Why don't we put them on the North Shore, where they say, 'Hey, let's help out, let's help out'?" a third person said.

Local alderman for the 38th Ward, Nick Sposato, said leaving hundreds to sleep on the floors of police stations was "not right" for law enforcement to have to deal with.

"Right now, this is kind of a win-win. It's a win to get them off the floors of the police stations, and it's a win for the police officers to have them out of there," Sposato said.

A fourth angry resident asked how the city would guarantee people housed in the gym would follow the 11 p.m. curfew.

“They can just roam the neighborhood. We have seniors, children, disabled. Do all these people have background checks?” the woman said.

A fifth person asked who would be fronting the bill for the three-month housing project.

Immigrants released into the country to await court proceedings five to 10 years later are allowed to reside anywhere in the U.S.

Given the thousands being released in border cities daily since President Joe Biden took office, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) announced in April 2022 that the state would provide free bus transportation to select cities in an effort to ease the burden on airports and bus stations.

Abbott began providing buses to Chicago in late August, infuriating then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who called it "racist."

Chicago is expected to approve more than $50 million in taxpayer money to respond to the border crisis's impact on the city between now and the end of June.

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Juan Salgado, chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, called for residents to accept the idea.

“As chancellor, I am confident that this will go well,” Salgado said, prompting a loud response of boos from the crowd.