Illinois will provide burial for migrant toddler who died on bus

Migrants are loaded onto a bus at the Border Patrol headquarters at Hondo Pass, in El Paso, Texas in April 2019. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star has sent 30,000 migrants who have crossed into Texas to sanctuary cities across the U.S. (Associated Press)

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois will provide for Thursday’s funeral and burial for the migrant toddler who died last week on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas, officials said.

Jismary Alejandra Barboza González, who would have turned 4 next week, died Aug. 10 while on a chartered bus, part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s program begun last year of sending migrants crossing into the state to Democratic-led cities across the country.