Texas plane, 300 migrants land in Rockford; 8 buses in route to Chicago drop off migrants in suburbs
Texas plane, 300 migrants land in Rockford; 8 buses in route to Chicago drop off migrants in suburbs
Several migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight.
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WLS) -- Eight migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight.
The migrants were flown from Texas to Illinois in a jumbo jet, landing at Rockford International Airport, Rockford ABC affiliate WTVO reported.
The migrant crisis Chicago has been grappling with has once again made its way to the suburbs.
After the plane landed, the passengers were reportedly immediately put on buses heading to Chicago's landing zone near West Polk Street and South Desplaines Street.
The City of Chicago issued a statement Sunday afternoon, saying that city officials had been notified by Rockford of the plane's arrival. Eight buses from Rockford have dropped off migrants in multiple suburbs on the way to Chicago, but they have not yet reached Chicago, city officials said.
When are we going to start seeing criminal prosecution for these antics? They are coercing these immigrants onto a bus and giving them no idea where they'll wind up- seems like a textbook case of kidnapping. Maybe start slapping some of the politicians with felonies and this will stop.
I'm all for spreading the load of handling these migrants around the country, Texas cities shouldn't have to do all the work and they certainly cannot do much of the work without government support in TX.
So... now we have migrants all over the country but are they expected to return to TX for their immigration hearings? The US govt. needs to figure this shit out ASAP and have the hearings transferred to where these people are.
Yeah, but when I sneak a bunch of illegal immigrants into the country it's "hUmAn TrAfFiCkInG¡".
Why not just take all the homeless from Chicago and send them to warm Florida?
Nice to see that Texas and Florida are competing for the worst state.
Republicans: there's never any money to help people, but there's always money for racism.
A huge problem with this is that asylum seekers can't work till they're granted asylum. I have no problem with Texas sending migrants to other parts of the country as long as they want to go wherever they are going and it's not all to one small place. Like they can't take all asylum seekers in all of Texas and send them to NYC. But if those people can't work then that's a big issue.
Welcome to pedantry corner, you have activated my trap card.
It's "en route" not "in route" https://www.dictionary.com/e/in-route-or-en-route/
texas did not do this it was done by their politicians there and the politicians in washington dc are as silent as ever
not all citizens in a state are actively and able to call any shots let alone this one and vilifying and singling people of a state out because "they chose" all the bad in their state is ludicrous some do not even have voting rights and some states ignore votes and things voted on such as Ohio
maybe our president should at least say something but the most he will do with this is say vote for me see how bad republicans are all while people are suffering