Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot (D) on Saturday called Texas Gov.
Greg Abbott’s (R) busing of migrants to the city “un-American.”
“You don’t treat people with this lack of respect, lack of dignity, putting them on buses to an unknown destination with very little food, very little water,” Lightfoot said during an appearance on “CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown.”
“They have very little that they need when they’re on these multiple-hour, cross-country bus trips,” she said.
Abbott’s office said on Friday the state has bused more than 10,400 migrants since April to Democratic-run cities in protest of
President Biden’s immigration policies.
About three-quarters have been sent to Washington, D.C., while more than 2,200 arrived in New York City since last month. The first bus sent to Chicago
arrived on Wednesday, and Abbott said more than 300 migrants have arrived in the city so far.
“What I don’t like to see is people taking these cross-country trips, getting off the bus and being immediately taken to the hospital because they were put on the buses with delicate medical conditions that no one in Texas seemed to care anything about,” Lightfoot said on CNN. “That is simply not right, and it’s un-American.”