Sunday 11 September 2022 03:43 AM Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sparks fury after moving 64 migrants bus from ... trends now
Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sparked outrage after deciding to move 64 migrants on a bus who were originally sent to the Windy City from Texas - on Gov. Greg Abbott's wishes - to a neighboring Republican suburb.
On Wednesday, 147 migrants were arrived in Chicago, city officials told Fox 32. A little less than half of them, however, were taken to a Hampton Inn hotel in Burr Ridge - 20 miles southwest from downtown - where they will be housed for at least the next 30 days.
Republican Mayor of Burr Ridge, Gary Grasso, directed his anger at Lightfoot and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker for using the migrants as 'political pawns.' Most of them come from South American countries, including Peru and Colombia.
'As is my understanding, this hotel, about a year ago, when refugees came in from Afghanistan, apparently accepted several either through faith-based or charitable organizations, but now the state assumes they can just send migrants…,' Grasso told Fox 32.
'This isn't about them, the migrants is fine, they're being used as political pawns by the governor and mayor,' he added.
The town of Burr Ridge - 20 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois - saw the arrival of 64 migrants from the US-Mexican border this week without any formal announcements made from Illinois and Chicago officials
Republican Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, who is the grandson of immigrants who came to the US, criticized Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for using the refugees as 'political pawns' and moving them to the GOP suburb
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced in the summer that he would be sending buses of hundreds of immigrants, mostly from South America, to northern states due to the southern border crisis
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The Greater Chicago Food Depository dropped off plates of flood at the hotel on Thursday for the legal refugees. Grasso added that no unaccompanied minors were among the 64 newcomers who were checked by the Chicago Health Department.
'We're more than happy for people to find freedom, it is hypocrisy by the mayor of Chicago to complain about the governor of Texas – I do agree with what he's doing –
