For a window into the chaos surrounding the current U.S. immigration policy and its enforcement flaws, you only needed to watch the late news in Chicago Wednesday night. Some 60 exhausted migrants, seemingly mostly from Venezuela, found themselves stumbling off a bus and staring into cameras outside Chicago’s Union Station.
Reporters had hustled to the station after catching wind of the latest incarnation of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” political show — busing migrants from Texas border communities to cities outside Texas, including Washington, New York and, Wednesday night, Chicago.
According to the Texas Tribune, this bit of political theater with coerced human performers has already cost Texas some $12 million, a windfall for the politically connected Wynne Transportation, but also more than enough money to give a few busloads of ambitious migrants a pretty good start to their new American life.
