{"id":1633293,"date":"2022-09-05T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633293"},"modified":"2022-09-05T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:19:17","slug":"chicago-mayor-frustrated-as-texas-buses-more-illegal-immigrants-to-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-frustrated-as-texas-buses-more-illegal-immigrants-to-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Frustrated as Texas Buses More Illegal Immigrants to City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-mayor-frustrated-as-texas-buses-more-illegal-immigrants-to-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633293&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Chicago Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-lori-lightfoot\">Lori Lightfoot<\/a> voiced her frustration on Sept. 4 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> has begun busing illegal immigrants to her city.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty immigrants, mostly part of families, arrived by bus in Chicago on Sept. 4 from Texas. More than\u00a095 immigrants had arrived in the city on buses days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot, a Democrat, said that officials are working with nonprofits to \u201cprovide a real welcome\u201d to the immigrants but is frustrated by what she described as a lack of coordination.\u00a0She claimed that\u00a0Texas Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-greg-abbott\">Greg Abbott<\/a>, a Republican, is \u201cmanufacturing a human crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy frustration comes from the actions of the governor of Texas,\u201d she said at a briefing. \u201cThere could be a level of coordination and cooperation, but he chooses to do none of those things, and instead tries to send human beings\u2014not cargo, not freight\u2014but human beings across the country to an uncertain destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have yet to hear from anybody in an official capacity from Texas, that\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas officials began transporting illegal aliens to Washington in April, and have since expanded the operation to New York City and Chicago; the state says it isn\u2019t forcing anyone onto the buses, but rather offering the ride to people who volunteer to be transported.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll continue busing migrants to sanctuary cities like NYC, DC, &#038; now Chicago until the federal gov\u2019t does its job &#038; secures the border,\u201d Abbott said in a statement on social media as the first buses reached Chicago.<\/p>\n<p> Sanctuary Policies <\/p>\n<p>Chicago, New York City, and Washington all have s0-called sanctuary policies or statutes that forbid or limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities with regard to illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s Welcoming City Ordinance (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/mayor\/Office%20of%20New%20Americans\/PDFs\/WelcomeCityOrdinance.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) says that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot voiced her frustration on Sept. 4 that Texas has begun busing illegal immigrants to her city. Fifty immigrants, mostly part of families, arrived by bus in Chicago on Sept. 4 from Texas. More than\u00a095 immigrants had arrived in the city on buses days earlier. Lightfoot, a Democrat, said that officials are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}