Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot demanded Texas Gov. Greg Abbott not send more migrants to the so-called sanctuary city.
“The City of Chicago is aware that the State of Texas is planning to resume bussing individuals and families to cities throughout the United States, including Chicago, starting Monday, May 1st,” Lightfoot wrote. “I am, yet again, appealing to your better nature and asking that you stop this inhumane and dangerous action.”
Abbott has been sending migrants to cities claiming to be illegal immigrants’ sanctuaries. Chicago started receiving them in the fall.
The influx of illegal immigrants has overwhelmed Texas border towns, which are nowhere near the size of Chicago.
But Lightfoot complained the city has no more room. She also tries to cast Abbott as a non-caring governor while telling him not to send them. The lack of self-awareness:
Nearly all the migrants have been in dire need of food, water, and clothing and many needed extensive medical care. Some of the individuals you placed on buses were women in active labor, and some were victims of sexual assault. None of these urgent needs were addressed in Texas. Instead, these individuals and families were packed onto buses and shipped across the country like freight without regard to their personal circumstances.Chicago is a Welcoming City and we collaborate with County, State, and community partners to rise to this challenge, but your lack of consideration or coordination in an attempt to cause chaos and score political points has resulted in a critical tipping point in our ability to receive individuals and families in a safe, orderly, and dignified way. We simply have no more shelters, spaces, or resources to accommodate an increase of individuals at this level, with little coordination or care, that does not pose a risk to them or others.
Yes, Lightfoot. Abbott does not care about the people, unlike you…even though you know the border towns have no room, and you won’t help them at all:
I know by your actions that you either do not see or do not care about the trauma these migrants have already faced and continue to suffer under the humanitarian crisis you have created. But I beseech you anyway: treat these individuals with the respect and dignity that they deserve. To tell them to go to Chicago or to inhumanely bus them here is an inviable and misleading choice.Though I am sympathetic to the significant challenges that border cities face, this situation is completely untenable. The national immigration problem will not be solved by passing on the responsibility to other cities.
It’s not until the end of the letter that Lightfoot acknowledged she would contact the federal government and keep asking them to provide more resources.
Good luck, Lightfoot. The federal government hasn’t done anything for Texas.
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