CHICAGO, IL – Mayor Lori Lightfoot had a lot to say on Monday regarding Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the busses full of illegal immigrants he’s sending to “sanctuary cities,” including her city of Chicago. Governor Abbott has said he will continue to do so until the southern border is secured, hoping that the move will help the rest of the country to understand the extreme hardships all the extra people are causing Texas, who is expected to care for them financially and physically despite their illegal status.
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Last week, Abbott sent several buses to Chicago and sent two more over the weekend. Lightfoot claimed that she “welcomes” the migrants but said she condemns Abbott for how he’s doing it. She also said he’s using the immigrants as “human pawns.”
“My frustration comes from the actions of the governor of Texas,” Lightfoot, a Democrat, said. “There could be a level of coordination and cooperation, but he chooses to do none of those things. Instead, he chooses to send human beings across the country to an uncertain destination. That’s unacceptable.”
It’s unclear what Lightfoot means by “coordination and cooperation.” She went on to say of Abbott, “He is manufacturing a human crisis, and it makes no sense to me.”
The human crisis, of course, comes at the hands of the Biden administration, which refuses to secure the southern border of the United States, causing a records breaking number of illegal immigrants to be allowed into the country despite a major economic recession and inflation that is hurting American citizens enough without their presence. “Mayor Lightfoot is attacking Texas instead of addressing the real cause of the border crisis: Joe Biden,” Abbott said in a tweet. “His inaction at our border is putting the lives of Texans at risk & is overwhelming our communities. Texas is doing Biden’s job to secure the border.”
Lightfoot announced a donations website being set up to raise the funds and goods to use for the illegals. “We are a welcoming city,” she said. “We are always going to step up and do the right thing to make sure that migrants coming into our city are well received, that they’re supported.”
“We have people coming as families, young children with their first taste of democracy and freedom in many instances, and we need to make sure that the memory that they have of Chicago and of the United States is favorable. Regardless of where their life journey takes them, I want them to feel like in this moment that they came to this city, and we wrapped our arms around them, loved them, and supported them.”
Chicago Alderman Raymond Lope, who is running to oust the Democrat mayor, said in a tweet, “And the victims of Chicago gang violence get…[crickets].”
This piece was written by Leah Anaya on September 6, 2022. It originally appeared on RedVoiceMedia.com and is used with permission.
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As long as these cities all proclaimed themselves to be “sanctuaries:, let them prove it now!
There’s a Hypocrite for ya and an OXYMORON expresser. Lightfoor is mayor because? because the stupids keep voting her in?
Wait this mad it through moderation, but my comment went in?
Pfft what a hypocrite and an oxymoron lives here too
The Virtue Signaling FOOL, Mayor Lightfoot is such a WEASEL!
why aren’t her and adams ( just to name a few) going after the real culprit … joe biden
here we go again AOL stiffling my opinion.
What do you think your fraud in chief and his terrorist handlers are doing you idiot
lightfoot is the worst ( P O S ) to be put in control of anything!! she should be in control of perverted democrap shithouse as a fag controler ,of illegals !
Don’t you love the duplicity and ignorance of liberals? It’s ok for them to tell us who we should be tolerant and accepting into our neighborhoods, but as soon as they experience the very same situation, right away we are the bigots, racists, fascists etc…
The one thing that still confounds me is how these people continue to get elected especially things only ever get worse under their governance.
Light foot has a sanctuary city. I don’t know why she is complaining.
She should be grateful to serve illegals.
Is there a well run DRat city? But it’s all somebody else’s fault that so many are flailing. How long have DRats run some cities? Generations and some nearly a century or more. Same old excuses, same old garbage, same old failures.
She’s a hypocritical SCUMBAG who hates and resents the people she claims to represent. It’s the only explanation for her excruciatingly bad governance. No one is THIS incompetent, therefore it must be pre-meditated and purposefully malicious.
If she had half a brain she would take it out and play with out