On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that the first buses of illegal immigrants from Texas have arrived in Chicago, Illinois.
“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C. and New York City as an additional drop-off location. [Chicago Mayor Lori] Lightfoot loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status, and I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them.”
In response to the news, Lightfoot called Abbott “a man without any morals.”
“Let me say loud and clear to Greg Abbott and his enablers in Texas with these continued political stunts, Gov. Abbott has confirmed what unfortunately many of us had known already, that he is a man without any morals, humanity or shame,” the Chicago Mayor said.
Lightfoot also claimed that Abbott chose to “inhumanely load them onto buses” and send the migrants to Chicago without “any regard for what the next steps are.”
According to Fox News, “the migrants were on a bus with air conditioning, and were provided with food, water, and security.”
“These are human beings, moms and dads, young children, elders, who deserve our respect and dignity. They’re not cargo. They are not chattel. They’re human beings, just like you and me,” Lightfoot added. “Gov. Abbott’s racist and xenophobic practices of expulsion have only amplified the challenges many of these migrants have experienced on their journey to find a safe place. The governor’s actions are not just inhumane, they are unpatriotic.”
The news come as illegal immigration has reached the highest levels on record with nearly 2 million migrants being encountered at the southern border by July of fiscal year 2022, already far more than the 1,734,686 encounters in all of fiscal year 2021.
