Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had asked Abbott to stop sending busloads of migrants to her city, saying they cannot be accommodated there.
Migrants board a bus headed to San Antonio in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started busing migrants from South Texas to Chicago in late August in response to what he called a lack of federal government action on the border issue.A day after Chicago’s mayor asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbottto her city, the Republican has refused in a strongly worded letter saying it's President Joe Biden's fault he has to keep doing it.
“Until Biden secures the border to stop the inflow of mass migration, Texas will continue this necessary program,” Abbott said in the letter to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.His letter comes after Lightfoot, a Democrat, had sent him a letter warning that Chicago doesn’t have the resources to care for more migrants.
“We simply have no more shelters, spaces, or resources to accommodate an increase of individuals at this level, with little coordination or care, that does not pose a risk to them or others,” Lightfoot said.where Democrats are mayors. Abbott has said the program only sends migrants who volunteer to go and after they have signed waivers and have been processed by federal border officials.
Chicago has received more than 1,500 from Texas, according to Abbott’s office. But Lightfoot in her letter said her city is caring for more than 8,000 people since last August when Abbott first started sending people to her city. In his letter to Lightfoot, Abbott shows little sympathy for Chicago’s difficulty in handling the 1,500 migrants his office said they sent there.“As the mayor of a self-declared sanctuary city, it is ironic to hear you complain about Chicago’s struggle to deal with a few thousand illegal immigrants, which is a fraction of the record-high numbers we deal with in Texas on a regular basis,” he said.
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