Mayor Lori Lightfoot encouraged residents to help support a second wave of migrants who arrived Sunday afternoon by bus in Chicago and urged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to collaborate on a more humane transition.
The new group was shipped to the city by Abbott as part of an effort to criticize the nation’s immigration policies and relieve what he says are overburdened border towns in his state.
For weeks now, Abbott, a Republican, has been sending busloads of migrants who crossed the border in Texas to Washington, D.C., New York City an now Chicago. The first group arrived Wednesday.
Lightfoot, in a Sunday evening news conference, said she is frustrated with Abbott for not collaborating and cooperating with the city to provide any support.
“He tries to send human beings, not cargo, not freight, but human beings across the country to an uncertain destination,” Lightfoot said. “He is manufacturing a human crisis and it makes no sense to me.”
The new group arrived around 4:15 p.m., and the mayor said she stood ready to help welcome them with dignity and respect.
“They need shelter, they need warm food, we’re making sure that there are no medical issues with any of the folks there; we’re doing for them what we would do for any vulnerable resident here in the city of Chicago,” Lightfoot said.
The mayor praised several nonprofit organizations including the Salvation Army, the Resurrection Project, the National Immigrant Justice Center.
“There is a long list of people who have stepped up in this moment and shown what Chicago is really about,” Lightfoot said.
The city of Chicago set up a website with information on how to volunteer or make a donation.
Gift cards, new clothing, athletic shoes, hygiene kits, diapers, backpacks, baby formula, blankets, books for children in Spanish and strollers are among the list of essential items needed.
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That headline should stop at: “Does Lightfoot think”.
Apparently her city of the Broad shoulders, now Lightfoot morphed into the Hunchback of Notre Dame, only gives sanctuary to Socialist Hunchbacks that throw things off buildings , tear down statues and strangle peaceful citizens. She apparently wants a heads up if any normal Conservative people are being dumped into the city where now only crime and criminals get actual Lightfoot inspired sanctuary. When it comes to violence and crime in this Alinsky/Obama formerly community organized city, there is no uncertainty as to the deprived opportunities they will find in what was once called “The 2nd city”, now so obvioulsy first in crime , murder and corruption, thanks to Lightfoot and the march of her woodenheaded foot soldiers.
Liberals never think about anything. If they did then they wouldn’t be liberals in the first place.
SHE IS A LIBERAL. SO the answer is obviously NO!
“Joe Biden’s administration is sending human beings, not cargo, not freight, but illegal immigrant human beings across the country to an uncertain destination, along with tons of deadly illegal drugs.
Chicago has bragged about being an illegal immigrant sanctuary city. So what is this Mayor Lori Lightfoot whining about??
She is just getting what she asked for by making Chicago a sanctuary city.
Why doesn’t Lightfoot ask her president why he sends plane loads of illegals around the country without giving those cities/states a heads up ? How many of those planeloads of illegals went to the red states/cities? They won’t talk about that point. Instead of closing and protecting our borders the Biden stooges just let them keep coming in. Of course the taxpayers are the ones picking up the tab for them, no matter where they are sent.
AND IN SOME Cases, the locals, even IF THEY REFUSED TO accept them, STILL HAD those illegal invaders, DUMPED ON THEIR communities, in the DEAD OF NIGHT.
Mayor Lightfoot knows that Illegal Aliens cause problems and destruction for American Citizens and Legal Immigrants. Been proven for decades. But that’s okay for Mayor Lightfoot, and other Leftists, because they want harm to America. But the moment THEY feel the hurt caused by their actions they start to scream. Typical Hypocrisy.
Guess she doesn’t want to share in the gifts from biden!
Texas needs to bus as many Illegal immigrants to Chicago, ILl , Washington D C , Delaware and NYC. How about Twenty Bus Loads and DAY. And let’s see how they like this **** !
I’d even go so far as to CHARGE THE STATE you’re delivering them to, TO RECOUP THE COST OF HIRING THOSE busses.. AND for the gas!
Don’t expect the citizens of Chicago and Illinois to contribute, they are to busy trying to feed and protect their families from all of ignorant decisions coming from Lightfoot and the over robust Illinois Governor Prizeass.
Your right, Lori, Chicago is an uncertain destination, considering no one can be certain if they will survive the violence there. I can certainly see how sending migrants to any Democrat ran city could be considered human a crisis. Maybe she would prefer the illegals be put in the cages Obama built and held there indefinitely so she doesn’t have to deal with them.
OR better yet, SENT BACK TO THEIR HOME country!