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.
Seems Texas migrant policy really is the homeless episode of South Park. Thankfully Chicago thought to actually do something useful when they were informed they were coming, and didn’t just send the buses to Denver.
That’s also how small conservative towns and churches in Texas handle their homeless. They put them on busses and send them to the larger cities in Texas.
Which wasn’t this literally just debated as human trafficking violations with DeSantis and Florida (or maybe TX idek anymore)…
Yeah, one one hand, I don’t get how this isn’t straight-up human trafficking. On the other hand, I have a feeling Chicago and New York and all those other places are helping these people in a much more compassionate manner than they would have been handled in Texas, so there’s at least that. I don’t know what a good answer is to the whole situation, but at the moment, asylum seekers are getting better help than if they were thrown in Texas border cages.
It’s such a catch-22
If you’re homeless and not receiving any housing assistance anywhere. Then, the warmer climate of Texas would be preferable for Winter. But we see how it’s going so…
Why isn’t this considered kidnapping?
It is pretty sick to play around with real human lives like this.
yeah, they should all stay in Texas, right
When you put it that way, we should be applauding how much they’re helping the immigrants get out of Texas.
Lolwut
Hey since the border officials in those other states aren’t doing their jobs, we should stop paying them and give their money to their victims
I was thinking, this is so obviously a stunt by Abbott to get the blue states to bitch about immigration. Why don’t these blue state reps say, hey, we get it. It’s a financial burden to house immigrants. Why don’t we all lighten the load and skim $1b off the defense budget?
Why won’t they?
Well…I guess it’s because theyre all neoliberal fuckwits that love that defense budget like it’s 2001.
And I don’t think this is because border officials aren’t doing their jobs. Their jobs isn’t to bash and deter, but wrangle once someone new comes in. Americans love paperwork.
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Yeah, but when I sneak a bunch of illegal immigrants into the country it’s “hUmAn TrAfFiCkInG¡”.
Could anyone with academic or professionally relevant expertise explain how this is legal? I’m confused on what grounds and how a state could interfere with immigration, which is a federal issue, much less interstate transportation (another federal purview) actions regarding it.
Is the Biden administration just not enforcing the federal jurisdiction and allowing it by ignoring them violating the constitution? Or is it there’re no laws around this even though the constitution doesn’t allow states to do this? Whatever the reason, I’m utterly confused about why it is being tolerated.
Here you go, it’s been fought in court and it’s legal-ish.
Nice to see that Texas and Florida are competing for the worst state.
You know this is going to back fire on Texas, states might require permits or taxes to travel to and from a state.
That would be pretty unconstitutional.
bans travel to other states for an abortion
having busses travel from other states is unconstitutional
Pick a lane
Banning travel to other states for an abortion is also very clearly unconstitutional. There are still pretty big differences between restricting travel from specific states for something that is completely legal (driving a bus) and restricting your citizens from going outside your state to do something that is illegal in your state (abortion). One is a matter of jurisdiction while the other is a matter of travel restriction.
What?
You know this is going to back fire on Texas, states might require permits or taxes to travel to and from a state.
I’m just waiting for the /s
Ha-ha.
As I understand it, this is a suggestion that it would be okay for states to take blatantly unconstitutional action in retribution for the likely criminal acts of the Texas state government. I’m hoping that I’m wrong, because that’s nuts.
I’m not sure whether that would be a feasible solution. The undocumented part of “undocumented immgrant” is a result of immigrants bypassing a similar system when entering the country.
“Hey let’s find a solution to our broken immigration system”
Texas: “nope send dem to dem LiBeRaLs”
“Wow Texas youre so smart, you’re totally not trafficking people like the cartels”
They should just secede and become a desert version of North korea.
Edit:corrected
They should just succeed and become a desert version of North korea.
Do you mean secede?
secede. Dumbass.
Wish a texas would
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.
Not entirely true. It’s takes a long time to apply, but the feds actually helped fast track work permits for asylum speakers by having staff on site in NYC to immediately process permits. https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/660-23/mayor-adams-expedited-sprint-identify-asylum-seekers-eligible-apply-work-permits
Interesting, I didn’t know.
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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/
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.
There already is a process to allow immigrants to spread around the country, what Texas is doing is delaying and circumventing that process, making it take longer and cost more. I say send Texas the bill for their nonsense.
Rockford is nicer than Chicago anyway
Only if you need a rehab facility.
wow, lotta hate for Rockford on here. yikes!
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
So you’re saying the only way to stop Texas from being a shithole is to not vote for Biden?
