Chicago Mayor Frustrated as Texas Busses More Illegal Immigrants to City

Chicago’s mayor on Sept. 4 said she was frustrated that Texas is bussing illegal immigrants to her city.

Fifty immigrants, mostly part of families, arrived by bus in Chicago on Sunday from Texas. Two buses days earlier arrived in Chicago, dropping off over 95 immigrants.

Authorities in Texas began transporting illegal aliens who accepted the offer to Washington in April, and have since expanded the operation to New York City and Chicago.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, said that officials are working with nonprofits to “provide a real welcome” to the immigrants but is frustrated by what she described as a lack of coordination.

“My frustration comes from the actions of the governor of Texas. 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—but human beings across the country to an uncertain destination,” Lightfoot told a briefing. “We have yet to hear from anybody in an official capacity from Texas, that’s unacceptable.”

She claimed that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, is “manufacturing a human crisis.”

Abbott ordered the transportation scheme. He has said that the operation is aimed at applying pressure on the federal government, which has loosened or completely reversed key Trump-era immigration policies.

“We’ll continue bussing migrants to sanctuary cities like NYC, DC, & now Chicago until the federal gov’t does its job & secures the border,” Abbott said in a statement on social media as the first buses reached Chicago.

Sanctuary Policies

Chicago, New York City, and Washington all have s0-called sanctuary policies, or policies that forbid or limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities with regard to illegal immigrants.

Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance (pdf) says that no agency or official can arrest, detain, or continue to detain a

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