CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Mayor Lightfoot took aim at Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday for sending 75 migrants on buses to Chicago. She also promised that the city will do whatever is necessary to help those migrants and any more who are sent here.
Abbott said he sent the immigrants to Chicago because Texas communities are overburdened by what he claims are inadequate efforts by the Biden administration to protect the border.
Mayor Lightfoot accused Abbott of unfairly targeting the immigrants in what she called a racist and inhumane political stunt.
“Instead of treating these individuals with the respect they deserve, the due process that our laws require. Gov. Abbott chose instead to inhumanely load them onto buses, send them on a more than 12-hour journey across a country they don’t know, and to drop them off without any regard for what the next steps are,” Lightfoot asserted.
Lightfoot said, for now, the city is getting adequate assistance from Cook County and the state, as well as a variety of community organizations to meet the immediate and long-term needs of the migrants.
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She said if Texas continues to send migrants here, the city might have to rely on help from private donors and charitable organizations because the city's resources are limited.
“This is not something that we budgeted for, but it’s something that we must do. And so, we will figure it out, the finances, working collaboratively with the federal government, the state and the county. The county in particular has already stood up, I’m expecting to see other resources come from our other partners, but it’s what must be done,” Lightfoot said.
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