Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26), top right, asks questions at a Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights meeting on Tuesday. [Livestream]

City officials have reduced by more than half the amount of money being spent on the migrant crisis in Chicago but don’t plan to end the city’s 60-day shelter stay policy any time soon as the city is preparing for a possible surge in buses ahead of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) next month, the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights was told this week.