Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Blasts Greg Abbott as Tension Builds Over City’s Illegal Immigrant Crisis
“The governor of Texas needs to take a look in the mirror of the chaos that he is causing for this country. This is not just a Chicago dynamic. He is attacking our country!”
As illegal immigrants continue to get bussed from Texas to Democrat-run sanctuary cities as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to alleviate the Biden border crisis, the meltdowns from the left-wing mayors in those cities get louder and more unhinged, as evidenced by remarks made by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson during a Monday press briefing.
Johnson, whose approval ratings have tanked just six months in, is under fire from residents in the overwhelmingly blue city for displacing citizens in some areas and setting up temporary migrant shelters in others. Tensions boiled over Monday when someone asked Johnson about conditions and medical needs at one migrant shelter, where several children were recently hospitalized and one five-year-old, Jean Carlos Martinez, died.
Here’s some of what he said:
“We have a governor – a governor – an elected official in the state of Texas, that is placing families on buses without shoes, cold, wet, tired, hungry, afraid, traumatized,” Johnson said. “And then they come to the city of Chicago where we have homelessness, we have mental health clinics that have been shut down and closed, you have people who are seeking employment.”
He went on to argue, “The governor of Texas needs to take a look in the mirror of the chaos that he is causing for this country. This is not just a Chicago dynamic, he is attacking our country.”
Watch:
Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is accusing Texas Governor @GregAbbott_TX of “attacking” America by sending illegal aliens to sanctuary cities like Chicago. pic.twitter.com/rgYNBAH9qc
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) December 20, 2023
As one might imagine, Abbott’s office has responded accordingly to the criticisms:
Abbott’s Press Secretary Andrew Mahaleris told Fox News Digital that Johnson was “flat out lying.”
“If he truly cared about these migrants, he would stop spreading falsehoods and complaining about a few thousand migrants being bused into his sanctuary city,” he said. “Instead, Mayor Johnson should call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border — something the President continues failing to do.”
Mahaleris noted that migrants willingly sign a voluntary consent waiver available in various languages upon boarding a bus in which the destination has been agreed to. Each bus is also stocked with food and water and makes stops along the route to refuel and switch drivers, he said.
Migrants are also allowed to purchase extra items or disembark at any stop because they were previously processed and released by border authorities, said Mahaleris.
Regarding Martinez’s death, according to CBS2, medical professionals told them they felt his death could have been prevented had they simply been allowed to go inside to treat him:
CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar also spoke Monday with medical volunteers who have treated migrants at shelters since their arrival. They said they tried to get into the Pilsen facility, but were not allowed in – and called the young boy’s death preventable.
Mayor Johnson said he knows nothing about that.
Meantime, the cause of the 5-year-old boy’s death remains under investigation.
Johnson’s office officials also claim that “there is no evidence of an outbreak at the shelter” in question and say that the Chicago Dept. of Public Health continues to “evaluate the situation.”
As always, stay tuned.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Black chicago mayor sanctuary city policy puts blacks at the back of the waiting line behind illegal aliens. So blame texas??
I love seeing these whining when they are only suffering a tiny amount of pain that border states are suffering.
Black Chicago mayor (female, followed by a male) talks about being the mayor of a sanctuary city, and invites illegal invaders from all over the world to line up at our southern border.
Without this morons, and his idiotic predecessor talking about “come one come all!!!!” we wouldn’t have these illegal invaders lining up to cross our borders.
What does the governor of Texas do? He gives a full fisted shove of the illegal invaders up Brandon’s ass.
What did Let’s Go Brandon 2 get? He got what he asked for, and now his panties are in a twist because his constituents are mad at him for it.
When logic and facts don’t support your argument, which is the case for 99% plus of Democrat arguments and positions, you resort to temper tantrums blaming anyone or everyone else. Grew up in Chicago. Love what the city used to be. Now, you couldn’t pay me enough to go to most places there on an average weekend. So sad. Chicagoans get what they elected.
I blame Texas for this mess.
Texas should have started busing three years ago!
Yep. Texas is full. Everyone goes to a bona fide sanctuary city.
You wanted it? You got it Brandon.
Now to work on Rehoboth Beach Delaware. They need about 40,000 illegal invaders to settle on those pristine lilly white beaches.
Washington DC, northern Virginia, Maryland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and every other sanctuary shit home we have.
Ditto! I vote for Rehoboth Beach and nearby cities in Delaware.
How about we all just blame the traitor in the Oval Office!
Maybe redirect your ire to the WH, that’s why these illegal aliens are getting into TX in the first place. Once again the d/prog reveal their agenda; illegal aliens are totes fine and to be welcomed…. so long as they remain far away from blue enclaves, especially those who might have to finally pony up resources due to their sanctuary policies.
The Massholes from Martha’s Vineyard couldn’t even handle 49 illegal invaders. “No Brown People allowed, please go away.
AIR *national guard* mobilized to take them to an air force facility. Militarized statist-much?
And your point is?
I am not the CinC of the MassHole Air National Guard. I don’t mobilize anyone.
But when I am given orders that are not legal, I will make sure my commander knows it. That is the job of a CMSgt, as the senior enlisted advisor.
So, no, not a militarized statist much.
I apologize. I screwed up. Badly put by me. Not pointing at you. Missed how what I said could obviously be taken. I am sorry. I screwed up.
Trying to say better what I’m trying to mean… something like “aren’t those guys who ordered that crap militarized (or better “militarizing”) statists, much. The issue isn’t the people in uniform; it’s their bosses.
The militarized statists I meant are the command, more the administration giving them direction, yet more the political and social perspective they all work for. They see the military as just another knob to grab for any purpose. It isn’t that. And they make no distinction between applying the military internally vs. externally It isn’t for that. And they have no limits on what they’ll use any force at hand to address. Some stuff we don’t decide by force.
Relocating immigrants, legal or illegal, should never have happened that way. Not what the military is for. Folks in uniform are caught in a terrible bind when this kind of stuff is done this way.
I may still be wrong, but this just now is what I was trying to mean. We have way too many statists way too willing to use the military, with way too aggressive ends, for way too many situations.
And, thank you for taking the time to yell at me. I screwed up.
Regarding your follow up comment.
Amen!
“We have a governor – a governor – an elected official in the state of Texas, that is placing families on buses without shoes, cold, wet, tired, hungry, afraid, traumatized,”
is that how they crossed from Mexico?
Don’t distract border czar kamala from redecorating her office.
This idiot is one of the dumbest human beings in politics. It’s says quite a bit about 52% of Chicago voters who thought he was the best guy available to represent their interests. They – unbelievably – apparently think even less of themselves than I think of them.
Scary thought of the day. What if he WAS the best candidate in the Chicago mayoral race?
Paul Vallas was more than likely the best choice for Chicago mayor. Somewhat of a moderate Democrat with some fiscal common sense. White guy, nuff said.
I met Vallas once years ago. He was super intelligent and he actually cared about the citizens who he would represent.
That disqualified him in Chicago..
Well, I guess it’s possible that whenever you have a General Election where the choices for the voters comes down to the Democrat or the other Democrat or the other Democrat, there’s always a chance that the Democrat who ends up winning may have been the best bad decision voters could have.
Abbott isn’t attacking the country. It’s the illegal invaders themselves and their democratic enablers.
Keep sending them until the retards figure out the error of their ways. Let those who want: “sanctuary” bear the costs of their retardation.
Shut up and have some more illegals, Brandon.
Make you big and strong.
That’s still the party line… isn’t it?
The funny thing is that neither NY City nor Chicago have anywhere near their population-based fair share of all the illegals Brandon has let in. Yet, as sanctuary cities, they should have more that that.
My calculation is the Chicago should get 37 thousand out of five million.
I almost miss Lori Lightbrain….
In the Party’s Year Zero… there are “BB” and “AB”…. before and after Brandon …your pick as to a mayor and/or a (p)resident.
Does anyone else get a feeling that we are in reality several different nations inside one set of borders, with the southern one wide open?
Subotai Bahadur
“Let’s Go Brandon” Johnson will receive & pocket Federal tax $$$. This is nothing more than blowing smoke. He won’t get re-elected but will retire young. He’s in over his head.
Didn’t mean that as a reply Subotai 🙂
When will we be checking into the Hotel Rwanda?
?Feeling? is absolute conviction a feeling? I have that.
Worse, in principle a federalized system would allow the pressure-valve of different strokes for some things, while imposing consistency on a necessary few.
We’ve ended up with neither the variety, nor the consistency.
He won’t blame Biden. That is verboten and will trigger a 6:00 am Gestapo raid to his house.
Just make sure CNN has advance notice. They need prep time. Sorta like the imbedded “reporters” who knew about the Ham-Ass attack on Israel.
Mayor of NYC blasts governor of Texas:
“Let all the illegals come accross the border who want to. But keep them in Texas. Build a wall around it or something. Don’t let them come to NYC because we don’t have the resources that big cities like Loredo or Uvalde have.”
How about a wall around NYC and they hold illegals until they can be deported?
That’s an excellent idea!
I wonder how long it is going to take before blacks realize that their jobs are in peril because of these jobless illegals? All of the welfare and other public handout programs are going to be limited and cut back to pay for these millions of people and that means that the typical black welfare recipient will get less. It is a total lose-lose for them as well as us.
Please try to be more racist. You need to try harder!
No group is more racist than Muslims. Now that they have started acting in a big way here, maybe we can mobilize to address this problem?
He’s being realistic. IL is broke. There’s thousands of 24yr old baby mamas in the system. It gets expensive. Only a matter of time until the money starts to run out.
Here Junior.
Educate yourself. Or ignore it as you wish since you have your head so far up your ass your view is distorted. No one can convince the ignorant.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/fear_of_muslims_is_rational_islamophobia_is_a_myth.html
Texas has now started flying illegal aliens to sanctuary cities like chicago.
Its ramping up.
The fool/tool half-assed mayor is half right. Illegal aliens are a national problem. Don’t expect slow Joe to fix it any time soon.
It’s Abbot’s fault Brandon is letting in millions of illegals and since Abbot is not willing to pay for them but is shipping them off to the sanctuaries that supposedly love “no people are illegal”
Sucks when platitudes and bumper stickers get smacked in the face by reality
Diversity is your strength, bitch. Now STFU and live up to your ‘sanctuary’ promise, liar.
Thousands more illegals in TX every day — no es problema.
A few hundred more illegals in Chicago every month — the world is ending.
I heard that the US government wielded the gates on the wall open so it illegals could go through it easily. This seems to be beyond what is acceptable administration of our immigration laws. Is what Quisling Joe is done ng legal?
Entirely illegal. Leading to the next question — why haven’t the only people with “standing’ — our GOPe legislators — done jackshit about it?
Their only solution is to demand you don’t do stuff, to patch up for problems their policies. The failures aren’t buts, they’re features. (Cloward and Piven, courtesy red phone!)
Next will be Mini-Daley, there, calling for federal travel restrictions at state borders. (Oh, wait, Hizzhonor from NY did that already, a while ago.) The Internal Security State will of course be all eager to help out — “TSA for driving across states? Yessir, Brandon. Can we get special uniforms for that, or is Border Patrol Brown enough to send the right message?”
Abbott isn’t creating any chaos, he’s just redistributing a tiny bit of it. Far less than Chicago’s fair share of it.
Nicely put. Band on.
Mayor, Johnson, why don’t you levy an emergency 20% tax on all the hotels in Chicago to pay for the influx of new citizens into your sanctuary city.? Better yet, cut the welfare checks by 50% and use the money to fund your sanctuary city. There are a lot of solutions better than criticizing Gov.Abbott. You can get away with it in Chicago. In Texas you’d get lynched.
Is there a word for getting lynched by other black people?
The Chicago Mayor is looking in the wrong direction. Look to the White House! Federal law covers immigration and border security. If you don’t like what is happening, tell Biden!!!!
Mayor’s Comment rewritten to reflect a more factual argument:
“We have a President – a President – an elected official, that is placing American families in jeopardy, afraid and traumatized,” Johnson said. “And then they (illegals) come to the city of Chicago where we have homelessness, we have mental health clinics that have been shut down and closed, you have illegals who are seeking employment.”
He went on to argue, “The President needs to take a look in the mirror of the chaos that he is causing for this country. This is not just a Chicago dynamic, he is attacking our whole country.”
Ghetto blasters are so 1980.