Mayor Lori Lightfoot encouraged residents to help support a second wave of migrants who arrived Sunday afternoon by bus in Chicago and urged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to collaborate on a more humane transition.
The new group was shipped to the city by Abbott as part of an effort to criticize the nation’s immigration policies and relieve what he says are overburdened border towns in his state.
For weeks now, Abbott, a Republican, has been sending busloads of migrants who crossed the border in Texas to Washington, D.C., New York City and now Chicago. The first group arrived in Chicago on Wednesday.
