Texas Gov. Greg Abbott mentioned Wednesday evening that immigrants will probably be bused from the Lone Star State to Chicago within the newest iteration of his controversial busing program.
The primary busload of immigrants arrived at Chicago’s Union Station Wednesday evening because the Windy Metropolis turns into the third vacation spot metropolis for asylum-seeking immigrants who're being bused from Del Rio, Texas, Abbott’s workplace mentioned.
He has already despatched migrants to Chicago, Washington, DC, and New York Metropolis.
“To proceed offering much-needed aid to our small, overrun border cities, Chicago will be a part of fellow sanctuary cities Washington, DC, and New York Metropolis as an extra drop-off location,” mentioned Abbott.
“Mayor [Lori] Lightfoot likes to tout the duty of her metropolis to welcome all no matter authorized standing, and I look ahead to seeing this duty in motion as these migrants obtain assets from a sanctuary metropolis with the capability to serve them.”
In April, Abbott began busing immigrants from the border to Washington, DC. Immigrants began arriving in New York Metropolis in June.
Abbott’s bus program, which makes use of each taxpayer cash and non-public donations, has racked up a price ticket of $12 million, or about $1,300 per immigrant bused to the East Coast thus far.
The immigrants who're a part of Abbott’s program usually are not unlawful immigrants. They've cleared step one in in search of asylum and have been granted authorized permission to stay within the nation whereas the federal authorities decides whether or not they qualify for asylum.
The Put up traveled to the US-Mexico border to witness firsthand how asylum-seekers from international locations like Venezuela and Cuba board the buses in Del Rio, Texas, after being screened by federal immigration authorities.
The governor’s workplace has maintained that the bus program is voluntary and that immigrants can get off the bus anytime they need, however immigrants aboard a Texas-to-Large Apple bus known as 911 after they mentioned they weren’t allowed to get off the bus in Tennessee.
The Put up obtained the 911 recording the place immigrants advised authorities they had been being “held towards their will.”
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