Texas sends buses of migrants to Chicago for first time, dropped off at train station – FOX News

Two buses carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Chicago on Wednesday night. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement that he looks forward to seeing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot welcome the migrants since Chicago is a sanctuary city. Chicago is the latest city where migrants have been bused to from Texas, following New York City and Washington, D.C., all of which have Democrat mayors.
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Rick
3 years ago

Lori thinks its cruel to send the border crossers to Chicago, I have to agree with her on this. Shipping someone from law-abiding Texas into a kill zone like Chicago is very cruel.

Henry Hatch
3 years ago

LL calls Governor Abbot a racist? That is pretty ironic coming from some one who refused to give interviews to white reporters.

debtsor
3 years ago
Reply to  Henry Hatch

Refusing to give interviews to white reporters is anti-racism.

Pat S.
3 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

Yeah, right – for all the Kool-Aid drinkers that is.

Bob Out of Here
3 years ago

Best way to look like an idiot is to wear a mask.

The Paraclete
3 years ago

This is Lori’s plan to save her future. It’s simple math. Can I welcome enough people to vote for Lori? She’s going to pay for all this with couch cushion change. All the funding for at risk teens and young adults. The Latin demographic is the future.
Negroes have wasted their opportunity, they had their turn at the helm and ran the ship into the breakwater.

Ataraxis
3 years ago

Remind me again why cops and firemen have to live within Chicago’s borders?

debtsor
3 years ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

Because it’s been that way forever.

Ataraxis
3 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

Tear down that wall!

Fur
3 years ago

Facilitating the illegal invasion of our country is criminal. The illegitimate Biden administration is just that…criminal. Id like to see the jails filled with politicians and folks who aid and abet aliens. This is probably one of the most insulting issues to Americans. Tremendous and radical ramifications of this invasion will forever alter our nation. Its huge.

Archie Bunker
3 years ago

Abbott is aiding and abetting. Send them back home instead.

Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Archie Bunker

No, he’s trying to show the states not on the border whats going on.

Tom Paine's Ghost
3 years ago

Dropping off at Union Station isn’t enough. They should be dropped in front of the Mayor’s house and the Governor’s house (the one WITH the toilets) and departing passengers pointed to the address. Drop at Congressman Quigley, Shakowski, Bustos, and Casten’s houses. With same instructions; “Free handout here. Just ring the doorbell.” Seriously. This is war. Make it ugly for the virtue signaling politicians. Until they suffer the consequences of their actions they will never consider changing their political views.

Ataraxis
3 years ago

Downtown Evanston would be perfect. All those lakefront mansions have lots of unused rooms. Also lots of empty space on the Northwestern campus for tent cities.

GM
3 years ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

As an Evanston resident, I *totally* agree. Many of the big mansions have “Black Lives Matter” and “Support Ukraine” placards on their well – groomed lawns, so they can add ‘We Are A Sanctuary City” for even ***more*** virtue – signaling! Maybe I’ll contact Governor Abbot’s office about this… and thanks for the suggestion…!!! 😉

Ataraxis
3 years ago
Reply to  GM

I especially love the condescending “We Believe…..” signs.
If I lived next door to one of those dolts, I would put a sign on my lawn that said “Hate Has a Home Here”.

GM
3 years ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

Perfect…!!! Or a sign saying, “Liberals, Get OFF My Grass!” would be nifty, too, lol…

nixit
3 years ago

Disagree. The train station is perfect. If they don’t want to stay, it allows them to connect to anywhere once they’re here. Don’t make it a game. It’s people’s lives after all. They made it here safely. That’s enough.

Abbott shouldn’t use this as a trolling opportunity as much as a “she wants it, she gets it.”

Ataraxis
3 years ago
Reply to  nixit

Two illegal brothers just got arrested for killing a North Carolina sheriff’s deputy. Would you make the same statements to the family of this murdered deputy?
I do not care about these illegals who have no respect for American laws. They’re lawbreakers. Arrest them, then deport them.

debtsor
3 years ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

Abbott has no legal authority to deport them. And if he somehow did, he would be violating their civil rights because only the federal government has the authority and legal power to limit immigration. So the next best thing is to get them out of Texas and into blue states.

Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

They came here because of an administration that has no respect for American laws.

Ataraxis
3 years ago

Let me be the first to say that one day the Dems will propose reparations for the Mexican-American War.

Joey Zamboni
3 years ago

Immediately upon debarking the bus they were added to the (D)’s election lists…

This may be a feel good story, but all it is doing is adding more (D) voters…

ron
3 years ago

Chicago should take it’s fair share of these immigrants, I calculate that to be 180,000

Hunter's Lap Dance
3 years ago

I see a bunch of men requiring abortions in the photo. They should be welcome with open arms!

Platinum Goose
3 years ago

Abbot needs to ramp up this program big time. All the woke politicians that state their city is a sanctuary city need to start getting migrants bused in. Identify every one of them and see that they all get their share of migrants.

nixit
3 years ago

There were over 200,000 crossing the border in June alone and Chicago is gonna pat itself on the back for accepting 60 of them.

Migrant crossings at the Southwest border

Most migrants crossing from Mexico enter the U.S. in Texas. In June, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it encountered 207,416 people at the Southwest border, and 26% have crossed more than once. Around 44% of the month’s crossings were processed under an order that went into effect during the coronavirus pandemic, which turns most migrants back to Mexico.

Greyhound si se puede
3 years ago

They should drop the dreamers right on Little Baby Lori’s block

Freddy
3 years ago

Astor Street is also fine but problem is no bathrooms in one of the mansions.

Ex Illini
3 years ago
Reply to  Freddy

Let them use the front lawn of that mansion. JB and MK can enjoy the full moons on their front lawn.

Chief
3 years ago

Easy to be all inclusive when they are 1000 miles away. Not so much, when encamped on Michigan Ave.

nixit
3 years ago

Why doesn’t the mayor charter a couple buses to the Texas border and pick them up? Chicago is so welcoming of illegal immigrants that it does nothing proactively to ensure they arrive in Chicago safely.

Mary Ladd
3 years ago

Mayor’s office said Gov. Abbott is “without any shame or humanity”. Being given a free ride to Chicago is a crime against humanity? Is Lightfoot’s office acknowledging that Chicago really is a hellhole?

debtsor
3 years ago

Lori’s response is to call it a racist expulsion policy. Illegal immigrants voluntarily taking a free bus to Chicago, provided by the state of TX, is a racist expulsion policy. She really has no other tool in her toolbox. Everything is racist to her. Lori, if you or your ilk are reading this: you are pathetic. Resign now.

Old Joe
3 years ago

Dulce hogar Chicago!

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