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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

With Chicago’s migrant crisis worsening, Biden should step up

President Joe Biden must show leadership and tackle the migrant crisis in Chicago and other cities. (Evan Vucci/AP)

This editorial board for months now has been critical of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ham-fisted handling of the city’s migrant crisis.

But as scores of asylum seekers from the country’s southern border continue to be crammed aboard buses and chartered aircraft by Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott and callously shipped to Chicago and other major cities with Democratic leadership, it’s also clear that its time for President Joe Biden to get off the sidelines and fully address the problem on a national level.

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