Mayor Lori Lightfoot suggested federal aid should be diverted from Texas given Gov. Greg Abbott's actions to bus migrants to northern cities.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is signing a disaster proclamation to secure resources for the asylum seekers bused to Illinois from Texas and has deployed 75 National Guard members to assist with the logistics of receiving the migrants, he announced Wednesday.
Pritzker again criticized his Texas counterpart, Greg Abbott, for failing to coordinate or communicate with Illinois and Chicago officials and questioned why he’s only sending migrants to politically “blue” cities and states.“What the governor of Texas is doing is a stunt,” Pritzker said,"... dumping these human beings off in the dead of night.”
Pritzker noted the migrants are in the country legally and that many trekked for weeks to make it to the U.S. border to escape oppression and persecution.Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the situation a “manufactured crisis by ambush,” saying Abbott’s aim is to “reignite anti-immigrant sentiment” and drain the resources of northern cities.
Pritzker said he will seek all available federal assistance, while Lightfoot suggested federal assistance should be diverted from Texas to other places who are welcoming the migrants.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.to arrive from Texas were more than 100 people who disembarked at Union Station from two buses Friday. Some members of the group said they were from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Friday’s group was at least the fourth round of asylum-seeking migrants in the past two weeks to arrive from Texas, part of a practice by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to bus migrants who arrive at the Texas-Mexico border to northern cities that have also included New York and Washington, D.C.
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