Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Lightfoot to address migrant influx as 5th round arrives in Chicago from Texas

CHICAGO (WLS) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Lori Mild and Prepare dinner County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will converse Wednesday morning, after the fifth spherical of migrants arrived in Chicago from the southern border Tuesday afternoon.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been sending migrants to cities throughout the US.

“That is all a political sport for Governor Abbott and albeit, it is merciless,” Pritzker has stated.

Two constitution buses have been seen arriving Tuesday. ABC7 Chicago deliberately blurred the faces of the passengers for his or her safety.

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Instantly upon arrival, the migrants have been loaded into CTA buses. As with earlier arrivals, the migrants will bear screening to determine housing and healthcare wants.

Greater than 360 migrants have been bused into Chicago from Texas because the finish of August. To date, the town has not given an official depend on the most recent arrivals.

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Over the weekend, a number of CTA buses took migrants who’d been bused from Texas to Chicago out to a resort in Elk Grove Village.

“These Democrat elites are absolute hypocrites, and now their hypocrisy is on full show for the whole nation. Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot have been complaining about a couple of hundred migrants being bused into self-declared sanctuary metropolis Chicago, then flip round and dump them within the suburbs for Republican mayors to cope with,” stated Renae Eze, Abbott’s press secretary, in a press release.

The mayor and governor are set to talk at 10:30 a.m.

Solar-Occasions Media contributed to this report.