By Mark Glennon*
Few things been subjected to more scorn by progressive politicians over Chicago’s migrant crisis than Texas busing asylum seekers to Chicago.
But new data uncovered Tuesday shows that the Biden Administration has allowed far more undocumented migrants to fly directly to cities in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has been a particularly harsh Biden critic and had been a potential rival for the presidency.
The Biden Administration has long refused to provide the locations to which those immigrants have flown, but the details were uncovered through a subpoena by the House Homeland Security Committee.
From January through August 2023, about 200,000 migrants flew into the U.S. via the program. Of those, 80% — 161,562 — went to four Florida cities: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa Bay. Miami alone received 91,821. Chicago had just 496 flown in by Biden. The 15 cities to which the Biden Administration flew in the most are listed below, provided by Fox News, which obtained the subpoena results. Texas also received a disproportionately large number. The Biden Administration let them fly in in through a controversial, mass parole program for migrants from four nations — Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua.
To repeat, 40,000 bused to Chicago by Texas, but 161,562 flown to Florida under the Biden Administration, of which 91,821 went to Miami alone.
What have progressive politicians said about the fly-in program?
Nothing.
But what have they said about migrants bused to Chicago?
Biden said of the busing, “Republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. What they’re doing is simply wrong. It’s un-American, it’s reckless and we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border.”
Gov. JB Pritzker said, “The governor of Texas needs to stop sowing chaos and needs to actually work with states…. “This is all a political game for [Texas Governor] Abbott — and, frankly, it’s cruel,” Pritzker said.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said, “The governor of Texas needs to take a look in the mirror, with the chaos he’s causing for the people of this country. This is not just a Chicago dynamic. He is attacking our country.”
He went much further, saying Republicans were intentionally sending migrants without coordinating with city officials in order to create chaos. “This is the same political party that did not want to accept that President Obama was actually an American,” he continued. “It’s the same Republican right-wing extremism that stormed the Capitol. It’s the same right-wing extremism that refuses to accept the results of the Civil War. It’s raggedy. It’s disrespectful it’s mean-spirited. It’s an unclean spirit, quite frankly.”
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Abbott, because of the immigrants he bused, has no “morals, humanity or shame.”
Busing to Chicago is resuming and will likely pick up as weather warms. When you hear the complaints from Illinois politicians, remember the hypocrisy: 40,000 bused to Chicago, but 161,562 allowed to fly directly to Florida.
*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.
List of cities receiving most migrants flown in by Biden Administration:
1) Miami, Florida: 91,821
2) Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: 60,461
3) New York City, New York: 14,827
4) Houston, Texas: 7,923
5) Orlando, Florida: 6,043
6) Los Angeles, California: 3,271
7) Tampa, Florida: 3,237
8) Dallas, Texas: 2,256
9) San Francisco, California: 2,052
10) Atlanta, Georgia: 1,796
11) Newark, New Jersey: 1,498
12) Washington, D.C.: 1,472
13) Chicago, Illinois: 496
14) Las Vegas, Nevada: 483
15) Austin, Texas: 171
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
The liberals would become apopletic should Trump relocate a few thousand to DE.
I was hoping he would relocate all DEMS to different countries!! FJB is familiar with most considering all the LLC”S they have found for him and his spawn!!
I’m not an economist but I would have to think this unchecked illegal invasion is inflationary. More demand for housing which causes the price to go up. More people buying goods and services and a lower percentage of people producing goods and services raises the price of those goods and services. I’m not opposed to legal immigration but it should be tied to some metrics that don’t cause a hardship on the people that are here legally. We’ve already seen that we don’t have enough housing what’s going to happen when unemployment starts creeping up.
Typical leftists. Demand and enact policies they think are progressive and compassionate. Denounce as bigots the rational people who point out the inevitable consequences. Then cry about how tough they have it when they have to deal with those consequences. Blame everyone and everything but themselves. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Sound familiar?
The Democrat’s Tyrannical plan all along has been to turn Florida and Texas Blue. Thereby they can rule nationally forevermore.
Biden’s willful mishandling off the border is unforgivable. Enforce the border AND facilitate needed immigration as this country always has supported.
LOL Biden doesn’t need or want your forgiveness. He only wants the next seven generations of immigrants and their children to vote straight ticket Democrat. And in the future, when a nefarious progressive communist politician decides that YOU are the cause of his constituents’ problems, your children and grandchildren might get the Boer or the Uyghurs treatment from the US government. Eventually there might be enough of the migrants and their descendants to form their own parallel society to the rest of us, and eventually see you as the occupier, and colonizer, and the source of and cause of all… Read more »
You should have said the administration. As we saw last week at the correspondents dinner he can’t even figure out how to butter a dinner roll. Hussein and Hillary are making the decisions.
yes, Biden isn’t doing jackrabbit. His wife Jill, as Biden’s gatekeeper/caretaker, has some say too (there was a recent glowing piece in some left-wing rag how she gets involved), and the NSA/CIA is directing a lot of it too. It’s more a regency, because Biden is incapable of making decisions, everyone around him is making decisions for him.
At least now we know where to watch at the polls for illegal voting!!
If a person grew up in a warm climate, they would like to continue to live in a warm climate like Florida and not where it snows up north.
Like China?
Beggars can’t be choosers.
Unchecked illegal immigration will be the downfall of the United States.
Already is!