Recently, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson made an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” where he criticized Texas Governor Greg Abbott over his redistribution of illegal immigrants to the Windy City. According to Johnson, Abbott is “determined to continue to sow seeds of chaos” as Chicago struggles to manage the constant inflow of migrants into the city.
Host Margaret Brennan opened the discussion by questioning Mayor Johnson on recent reports of an airplane from Texas landing near Chicago, dropping off migrants in the middle of the night. The American Tribune recently reported on new efforts from Gov. Abbott, expanding his migrant busing mission to include flights in light of a new ordinance aimed at “obstructing” and “targeting” the busing mission.
The Chicago mayor illustrated the “unsustainable” scale of the migrant crisis that is straining the infrastructure of many local communities around the country. In light of Abbot’s mission to relieve Texas border towns from the unfettered inflow of illegal immigration, sanctuary cities such as Chicago are now getting a taste of the challenges presented.
Well, what we have is clearly clearly an international and federal crisis that local governments are being asked to subsidize and this is unsustainable. None of our local economies are positioned to be able to carry on such a mission,” Johnson said. And what we have attempted to do is to create structure and some coordination around this this humanitarian crisis and unfortunately, the governor of Abbott, the governor of Texas, Governor Abbott, is determined to continue to sow seeds of chaos.”
“And last night, and several nights before a number of buses continued to arrive in the city of Chicago throughout the country without any coordination. And now he’s taken on this very dangerous task of placing individuals on airplanes and flying them into our various cities. This is certainly a matter of not just of our national security, but it’s the type of chaos that this governor is committed to administering,” Johnson continued.
Democrat Mayor of Denver Mike Johnston also appeared on the segment where he illustrated the impact of migrant busing on his city. Johnston indicated that his city is open to receiving migrants. However, he requested that it be conducted in a “humanitarian” manner.
“All we want is a system that is that is humanitarian for both the new folks that are arriving and for our cities and our city employees. And so we understand there’ll be an inflow we have already had 35,000 migrants arrive to Denver we’ve successfully helped them integrate into the country here. What we don’t want is people arriving at two o’clock in the morning at a city and county building with women and children outside and 10 degree weather and no support,” Mayor Johnson said.
And so we want buses here to do whatever other bus does, which is land at a bus station and a bus stop and ours where we can have staff there to receive them and to direct them towards services and so we understand the flow. is coming. We just want it to be coordinated and in a humanitarian way, which we think makes it effective for the city and for those newcomers. So that means things like arriving eight to five Monday to Friday with notice,” Johnson continued.
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