Texas Governor Sends Bus Filled with Illegals to Chicago, Welcomed by Lightfoot and Pritzker

Having caused consternation in New York City and Washington, D.C., Texas Governor Greg Abbott has now taken aim at Chicago.

This article is from The Center Square:

Texas governor sends first bus to Chicago of foreign nationals in U.S. illegally

  • By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) – The first bus carrying foreign nationals who crossed the southern border illegally arrived in Chicago Wednesday as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott expanded the state’s busing strategy to a third so-called sanctuary city.

In an effort to relieve Texas and border communities from an influx of people pouring through the southern border illegally, Abbott first began busing foreign nationals in the country illegally to Washington, D.C., in April. In early August, he began busing others to New York City.

Wednesday night, the first bus arrived at Union Station in Chicago.

“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. 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.”

With Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance,” the city cannot legally deny taxpayer-funded services to individuals based on their citizenship or immigration status.

From the number of reporters on the story, it appears the Chicago Tribune thinks this is a big deal.

According to a report published by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), Chicago is the third most dangerous Sanctuary Community in America.

Sanctuary Communities refer to government policies that discourage law enforcement officials from complying with federal immigration law in cities, counties and states, according to the Franklin County Law Library, located in Columbus, Ohio. Such communities generally refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain and remove dangerous criminal aliens.

From Twitter.

In 2020, Lightfoot signed an executive order making “illegal aliens eligible for all city benefits,” and a city ordinance prohibiting city officials “from cooperating with ICE to detain illegal aliens, even if the alien is in the city’s gang database or is facing criminal charges,” the report said. In 2019, Cook County District Attorney Kimberly Foxx also hired an advisor to shield criminal aliens from deportation.

The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the report and as of Tuesday night did not issue a statement about Abbott’s busing strategy.

President Joe Biden’s “refusal to secure the border is a direct threat to our national security,” Abbott said. “Texas is stepping up to protect Americans from these dangerous criminals.”

Since Abbott launched Texas’ border security effort, Operation Lone Star, law enforcement officials have apprehended more than 297,200 people who’ve illegally entered Texas, made more than 19,000 criminal arrests, more than 16,400 felony charges and seized more than 335.5 million lethal doses of fentanyl – enough to kill nearly every adult and child in the U.S.

Texas has so far bused nearly 10,000 people from the southern border to the sanctuary cities of New York City (1,500) and Washington, D.C. (7,400).

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From a follow-up article:

Lightfoot, Pritzker open to more migrants from Texas

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker say they are welcoming the new arrivals.

Among benefits foreign nationals in Illinois can receive are temporary visitor driver’s licenses and also medical care provided by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services for noncitizens ages 42 and up that meet certain income thresholds.

Lightfoot said Chicago’s various departments and agencies are greeting the new arrivals with “dignity and respect” by providing shelter, food and protection, and said Abbott is implementing “racist practices of expulsion.”

“We understand that many are fleeing violent, traumatic, or otherwise unstable environments,” Lightfoot said Wednesday evening. “This is such an important moment for Chicago as a city has been a sanctuary for thousands of newcomers. We are welcoming them and we will not turn our backs on those who need our help most.”

Abbott has sent about 10,000 migrants who crossed the border illegally into Texas to Washington, D.C. and New York City. “Chicago will now be a drop-off location for the busing strategy,” Abbott’s office said, “as part of the Governor’s response to President [Joe] Biden’s open border policies overwhelming border communities in Texas.”

“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,” Abbott said in a statement.

“Mayor Lightfoot loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status, and I look forward to seeing this responsibility action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them.”

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a statement late Wednesday evening.

“Illinois welcomes refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants and we are working with federal and city officials to ensure that these individuals are treated with respect and safety as they look to connect with their family and friends,” Pritzker said. “My great-grandfather came to this country as an immigrant fleeing Ukraine in 1881. Immigrants just like my family seeking freedom and opportunity built this country. Illinois is and has always been a welcoming state.”


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Texas Governor Sends Bus Filled with Illegals to Chicago, Welcomed by Lightfoot and Pritzker — 21 Comments

  1. We can do this ‘all day long’, with billions in our Rainy-day Fund.

    How bout you, Lori?

  2. Illegal Alien U.S. Justice Department Laws

    Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v)
    prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
    unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and
    engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2)
    prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner
    whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).

  3. These “migrants” should fit right in with the Latino gangs.

    Instant recruitment, established turf, guns, and all the fentanyl they can sell.

  4. **prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens**

    So you’re saying that Abbott is violating federal law?

  5. Bred, this is your final warning!

    You have until 6:00 A.M. Arctic Time Zone to respond to enforcing our border laws, before Texans push the button.

    Even emergency taxpaying and your precious Channel 9 TV can save you from an onslaught of Mexican car horns and all you can eat taco buffets.

    The choice is yours and Democrats who don’t comply, will soon see a busload of migrants camping and crapping on their lawns.

  6. What’s Lightfoot and Fatty Gov. blowing fuses about.

    WE ARE A SANCTUARY STATE THANKS TO RAUNER.

    And Cook is a sanctuary county.

    AND chiraq is a sanctuary city.

    BUT NOBODY ON THE McHenry County Bd will declare McHenry an Unsanctuary County.

  7. One sec Bred, about that time deadline I posted.

    This Texan app for that button, damn password! I’ll get back to you.

  8. why isn’t Kenneally marching around?

    I guess the fruit hangs too high.

    He’ll however have a ‘Patitude of The Day’.

  9. Arizona and Texas have been invaded daily with as many as 10,000 illegal border crossers.

    Arizona and Texas have been forced to feed and care for these people.

    So Abbott & Ducey start sending bus loads (at cost to Arizona & Texas) to these sanctuary cities. Lori Beetlejuice Lightfoot calls Abbot racist. You F’ing bitch. You think the problem should be limited to Arizona and Texas?

    Damn I hate that bitch.

  10. Of course these 2 idiots welcome these law breakers and give them handouts.

    They need to offset the mass exodus from this state some way.

    What better way than let illegals come in and start to produce anchor babies.

  11. Someday Lightfoot will get a treason trial.

    Maybe she’ll even get an appeal unlike the Nuremburg guys who lost the war.

    Maybe she won’t.

    But I’m certain neither she nor her fake “wife” will like the outcome.

  12. The “Summer of Joy” continues!

    Cue the gunshot and squealing tire noises.

  13. If you guys want to retaliate, send any girls you have left there, that are under 180 pounds.

    Fill all those other empty seats, with tins of Garrett’s Popcorn.

  14. Governors and mayors who proclaim their territories as sanctuaries are violating federal law. Litefoot and Prickster ought to be charged, prosecuted and locked up for giving shelter, sanctuary to illegal aliens who have invaded our nation. Foremost in violation of many federal laws re illegal aliens is Joe Biden. The governor of Texas did not invite the invaders into his State. He was given the massive invasion problem by Joe Biden.

    Instead of allowing an invasion at our southern border, Joe Biden should have both finished the wall that Trump started and deploy U.S. troops along the southern border to gently and firmly repel the invaders and have them go back to their place of origin.

  15. Now bred. Please don’t use logic on IL liberals and RINOs. It confuses them and makes their heads explode.

  16. Illinois Democrat Senator DICK Durbin was interviewed on WLS radio this afternoon.

    The invader/illegal alien issue was discussed.

    DICK’s solution to the invasion of millions of people across the US southern border, encouraged and allowed and condoned by Joe Biden and his Regime, was the very, very old Democrat B.S. term, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.

    This guy Durbin is a fool.

    He needs to be voted out of office in Nov 2026 if he decides to run for the Senate office again.

    There are procedures by the U.S. DHS, Department of Homeland Security, that honest people from various countries around the world use if they desire to immigrate to the U.S.

    There is absolutely no need for the baloney Democrat term, Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

  17. Remind f’wit Durbin, reform should be ‘the line forms in back’.

  18. Biden needs to be indicted. No one person should be able to do this to our Country.

    It is Congresses job and he shouldn’t be able to open the gates without an act of Congress and when they fail to act, the gates stay closed until they do act.

    This Country is beginning to look more and more like a Hell hole and Hellinois is in the top 5 states.

    When Ozzie Osborn leaves because it is a Hell-hole, it might be time to cross the pond?

  19. bred, until you understand the Diebold, ES$S, Dominion connection combined with ERIC voter roll software and then the IL Board of Elections and connections to Konnech Inc and the Chinese Communist Party you will never right the ship in this state. But hey what do I know I’m just a conspiracy theorist on a blog trying to wake people up.

    Remember voter id is a threat to the SOUL of Democracy. LOL. Joe Biden told us tonight while people were screaming F@#K Joe Biden during his speech. My God what a joke and clown show. I’m glad we are in the middle of Devolution.

  20. Ol Tella Tubby spewing BS again… these people that MADE Chicago were LEGALS dumbo… once again looking for FREE votes… Red Wave coming FF… why don’t you take that cheatin bus your on and drive it to joliet your cell is waiting… so are my new plates..

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