(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.
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.
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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Keep those busses rolling. Send every illegal invader to the blue states.
Yes.
And Governor Abbott, don’t forget to send a couple of bus loads to New London Conn. Preferably in the vicinity of the Coast Guard Academy…
Just a suggestion, you’re doing great!
Don’t forget portland, detroit, denver, seattle and minneapolis.
What about Martha’s Vineyard?
Soon the Democrats will have succeeded in segregating American into the successful white red states and the failing Democrat States of self–created Color. Whenever the democrats offer you one thing like social unity, the resuts they give you are always the opposite in social division and segregation.. Can’t wait to see Joe’s speech tonight to see what he promises, then check out the damage right before the election.
Not really. THEY WILL just act like Locusts, and spread their insanity to EVERY STATE, that is stupid enough to KEEP ACCEPTING folks fleeing from blue hell holes..
Welcome to Chicago! You asked for it, Mayor Lightfoot. No angst allowed. Deal with it like the border states have to.
Abbott’s just (rightfully) sharin’ the love.
Next suggested destination: gate of the Biden compound in Delaware.
that’s a good start, but don’t forget about that illegal haven California. They welcome all illegals and provide them with all kinds of taxpayer provided benefits. No sense in Texas having all the fun with the invasion of illegals.
The heck with it: Stick a pin in every Liberal Progressive neighborhood and really share the wealth to those who “only want to help” these poor “refugees” of suppression and repression (many of whom are seemingly healthy young men dressed in the latest fashionable gear between 18 and 25).
AND what gets me is how many are ADULT MALES of fighting age.. SO why are they not staying to FIGHT FOR THEIR HOMES!
Was Mayor Beetlejuice spitting bricks over this one? 😉
The over/under is 10 to 1 on “Yes”.
How about Detroit and Minneapolis?
I was wondering if Texas and other states would cede about 200 hundred yards wide territory along the entire border to the Federal Government. Then enforce the new border of Texas.
WHY? The feds have proven they CARE NOT about our bloody border.. SO WHY CEED land to them?
Congratulations!, Chicago.
How about sending a few buses to Claremont, California, they even have signs in their front yards welcoming them.
Please send more to Chicago and do not forget Scranton home of biden. Bet his “folks” there will br very, very happy with him about this