Ald. Andre Vasquez was almost done arranging chairs inside a barren church basement in Edgewater when he stopped to listen to a woman deliver a warning.

       The Rev. Beth Brown, a member of the Chicago police community commission, began tallying on her fingers the reasons Mayor Brandon Johnson should scrap his new plan to house migrants in encampments staffed by a security contractor. Too many people in tents that wouldn’t withstand winter temperatures, overseen by a controversial private company, Brown said.

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       Vasquez, Johnson’s hand-picked chair of the City Council immigration committee, agreed the mayor’s tent plan seemed misguided.