Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a disaster proclamation to secure resources for the asylum-seekers bused to Illinois from Texas and has deployed 75 National Guard members to assist with the logistics of receiving the migrants, he announced Wednesday.
Migrants are led from one bus to another bus after arriving from Texas at Union Station in Chicago on Sept. 9, 2022.
Pritzker said the migrants are in the country legally as asylum-seekers and that many trekked for months to make it to the U.S. border to escape oppression and persecution. But upon arrival, Pritzker said, they were herded into buses and dumped in the “dead of night” at Chicago’s Union Station. Pritzker said he will seek all available federal assistance, while Lightfoot suggested federal assistance should be diverted from Texas to other places that are welcoming the migrants.
He added that though it appeared the migrants signed waivers before boarding the buses, they may not have understood what they were doing and that the papers were not an “appropriate way” for Abbott’s administration to release itself from liability. Alyssa Negrete of Rack Em Ent Car Club, hands out clothing donations to migrants outside of the Salvation Army, 825 N. Christiana Ave., after the migrants arrived in Chicago on Sept. 7, 2022.
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