Democrat mayors don't want illegal migrants in their towns.
-
This story keeps getting better and better.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
WGN Investigates has learned several dozen of the migrants Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent to Chicago have now been relocated to a hotel in the suburbs without advance warning to the local mayor.
“I am concerned neither the village administrator nor I were told about this,” Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso told WGN. “We want to know: Why Burr Ridge?”
Just days ago, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted Abbott for treating the migrants like “cargo” and not providing her with advance notice they were arriving.
“My frustration comes from the actions of the governor of Texas,” Lightfoot said Sunday, when the first bus load of 50 migrants arrived. “There could be a level of coordination and cooperation, but he chooses to do none of those things and instead tries to send human beings — not cargo, not freight — human beings across the country to an uncertain destination.”
On Wednesday, a group of 75 more migrants arrived in Chicago from Texas.
Democratic politicians including Lightfoot, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have vowed to welcome the migrants and provide a full range of services to meet their immediate needs.
Chicago is a so-called sanctuary city and so is Cook County. Local officials have passed laws meant to protect immigrants from deportation. However, the portion of Burr Ridge where many of the migrants are staying is actually in DuPage County.
While campaigning for Congress, Grasso said he would work to secure the border and “defund sanctuary cities.” However, Grasso noted his village board had not taken a position on sanctuary cities.
Grasso said he only became aware of the migrants’ arrival in his village after residents began alerting village officials. He has since been invited to an online meeting with state officials.
At a Thursday morning event, Pritzker did not specifically address the location of the migrants but criticized Texas officials for treating them like cattle.
“What the governor of Texas is doing is disgusting and it needs to stop,” Pritzker said. “It shouldn’t be that the governor of Texas is taking these people and treating them like cattle, treating them like property, putting them on busses and sending them wherever he wants to send them.”
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Burr Ridge is an upper-middle-class suburb, about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. It is, as the article says, not in Cook County. The median income is $151K and it has a population of 11,134.
-
Easy to complain about situations in other areas until they effect you.
-
Chris Hayes:
Apparently "flinging" wasn't a problem 15 months ago.
Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center is receiving planes carrying migrant children who are being bused to multiple southeastern cities during overnight hours.
Channel 3 obtained video of one of those planes arriving Friday, May 14 shortly before 1:30 a.m.
A second video, shared with Channel 3, shows more children arriving late Saturday night. According to the source who provided the video, a third plane carrying children arrived Friday afternoon. Flight records confirm that a fourth plane arrived early Wednesday morning, May 19.
The video obtained by Channel 3, shows children who appear to be in their early teens carrying matching bags. The children then boarded buses, which were staged on the runway. Two of the four buses seen in the video are owned by Coast to Coast Tours of East Point, Georgia.
According to a Coast-to-Coast employee, the buses were dispatched to Chattanooga as part of a contract with the United States Department of Defense. The employee says this was the first time the company had been asked to pick up migrant children in Chattanooga. In the past, the company’s drivers have traveled to Mobile, Alabama, and Atlanta to transport children, according to the employee.
-
Of the illegal immigrants in NYC housing, more were transported to the city by Biden (middle of the night flights) than by Abbott and DeSantis combined.
-
Of the illegal immigrants in NYC housing, more were transported to the city by Biden (middle of the night flights) than by Abbott and DeSantis combined.
@Jolly said in Democrat mayors don't want illegal migrants in their towns.:
Of the illegal immigrants in NYC housing, more were transported to the city by Biden (middle of the night flights) than by Abbott and DeSantis combined.
Funny that there was no outrage about that, eh?
The leadership in Martha's Vineyard was upset that they weren't notified - cue the hysteria.
And when Lightfoot did the same thing to a suburb of Chicago...crickets.
-
Late in December, the enemy returned with an even more powerful armada. Attack after attack was mounted against the heroic defenders.
All Marine planes were shot down, casualties mounted, the situation was becoming desperate. However, communications were still maintained with Pearl Harbor. A relief expedition was mounted but the remnants of the Navy were so pitifully weak that the mission was canceled at the last minute.
Finally, Pearl Harbor queried Wake “Is there anything that we can provide?”
In one of the last messages from the doomed island came back:
“Send us more Japs!”
This is the right approach.
