ROCKFORD, Ill. (WLS) – Eight migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight.
The migrants were flown from Texas to Illinois in a jumbo jet, landing at Rockford International Airport, Rockford ABC affiliate WTVO reported.
The migrant crisis Chicago has been grappling with has once again made its way to the suburbs.
After the plane landed, the passengers were reportedly immediately put on buses heading to Chicago’s landing zone near West Polk Street and South Desplaines Street.
The City of Chicago issued a statement Sunday afternoon, saying that city officials had been notified by Rockford of the plane’s arrival. Eight buses from Rockford have dropped off migrants in multiple suburbs on the way to Chicago, but they have not yet reached Chicago, city officials said.
Seems Texas migrant policy really is the homeless episode of South Park. Thankfully Chicago thought to actually do something useful when they were informed they were coming, and didn’t just send the buses to Denver.
That’s also how small conservative towns and churches in Texas handle their homeless. They put them on busses and send them to the larger cities in Texas.
Which wasn’t this literally just debated as human trafficking violations with DeSantis and Florida (or maybe TX idek anymore)…
Yeah, one one hand, I don’t get how this isn’t straight-up human trafficking. On the other hand, I have a feeling Chicago and New York and all those other places are helping these people in a much more compassionate manner than they would have been handled in Texas, so there’s at least that. I don’t know what a good answer is to the whole situation, but at the moment, asylum seekers are getting better help than if they were thrown in Texas border cages.
It’s such a catch-22
If you’re homeless and not receiving any housing assistance anywhere. Then, the warmer climate of Texas would be preferable for Winter. But we see how it’s going so…
Just like Jesus.
A little bit of human trafficking just to rile your base is never a bad thing, eh?
No, unfortunately the cruelty is the point.
Maybe we need actual immigration handling? Like great big loads to judges and social welfare agents. Get all immigrants processed, setup with housing, and a supportive community within a short period of time.
Do the same for Americans. Throw in a UBI, health care, and life skill coaching.
Bring back the CCC while we’re at it
Yes, the Civilian Conservation Corps did great things.
No, CamelCamelCamel, to catch when your favorite migrant comes up on sale.
It is a digression, but U6 unemployment is still at 7%.
But then who will work for poverty wages picking fruits
Maybe we shouldn’t do that.
But then useful idiots will complain prices will go up.
They never consider that profits may go down.
Maybe we should point that out.
Every time a company is mentioned, print the profits and layoffs over the year?
Cause the profits cant decrease, they have to increase exponentially forever and ever.
Why isn’t this considered kidnapping?
Because it’s being done by politicians, who are apparently above the law.
It is pretty sick to play around with real human lives like this.
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When you make false promises so the immigrants board the plane or bus, then schedule their asylum hearing across the country, it is very much playing with people’s lives.
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600 million in federal aid was set up to assist with migration in 2023. $770 million is what ended up being dispersed. (An extra 170 million added in). If the aid isn’t enough Texas should request more aid.
Everyone is already pitching in. That was started under the Obama/Biden administration if I am not mistaken. Handling a situation responsibly. Putting up barbed wire in rivers and manipulating people and shipping them across the country with no notice isn’t responsible. If they wanted responsible they would have reached out to those states and set up a planned process.
Now on to the part that should be fully supported by everyone unless they are just preaching hate. Updating immigration law. The sooner they are documented and working the sooner they are paying taxes. Incoming migrants are money to be made. If we have a good immigration system we fast track their ability to make the country more money quicker (more than covering all those costs we invested)
Great post, but I want to correct the inference that undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes. That isn’t true.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-cec/index.html
For those that don’t pay income taxes, they are no different than the 40% of US households with low incomes. Gaining documentation is not likely to push their income to a level where that would really change.
They also pay sales taxes, and property taxes (indirectly through rent).
Non-border states also have undocumented immigrants. What are you talking about? The farther they travel from the border, the better the pay.
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yeah, they should all stay in Texas, right
Or maybe we should give these people a choice in where they go?
This is just throwing them around like a football.
When you put it that way, we should be applauding how much they’re helping the immigrants get out of Texas.
Texas does have a more developed system for handling asylum seekers, so yeah.
Does it? Seems like they system boils down to:
Put them in cages Ship them to another city/state Kill them Use them as cheap disposable labor
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If it snows in Texas do we point to Illinois and say then that Texans should be able to adapt fast enough because the Illini can handle a problem they’re used to?
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Both are unexpected events for which the affected area isn’t equipped but the other is. The main difference here is that people are responsible for dumping these humans into an area that’s not equipped to handle them, whereas no one is responsible for snow.
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People literally do, so?
Then those people are wrong and don’t understand how dealing with snow or asylum seekers works.
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They weren’t wrong. Some of those fuckers died of exposure in 37 degree weather, inside a house, a simple blanket prevents that.
Lolwut
When are we going to start seeing criminal prosecution for these antics? They are coercing these immigrants onto a bus and giving them no idea where they’ll wind up- seems like a textbook case of kidnapping. Maybe start slapping some of the politicians with felonies and this will stop.
Hey since the border officials in those other states aren’t doing their jobs, we should stop paying them and give their money to their victims
I was thinking, this is so obviously a stunt by Abbott to get the blue states to bitch about immigration. Why don’t these blue state reps say, hey, we get it. It’s a financial burden to house immigrants. Why don’t we all lighten the load and skim $1b off the defense budget?
Why won’t they?
Well…I guess it’s because theyre all neoliberal fuckwits that love that defense budget like it’s 2001.
And I don’t think this is because border officials aren’t doing their jobs. Their jobs isn’t to bash and deter, but wrangle once someone new comes in. Americans love paperwork.
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Why are refugees and illegal immigrants a state responsibility?
Shouldn’t it be handled federally? Why is there no department for handling this sort of thing instead of Texas having supreme decision making in their fates?
Why is there no department for handling this sort of thing instead of Texas having supreme decision making in their fates?
The federal government gives a lot of money to Texas for exactly this. The federal government basically goes “eh, it’s not worth it for us to try to do, since the state will be able to respond more agilely than the feds. So we’ll give them the money we would spend, and let them figure it out.”
The issue is that Greg Abbott is a greedy little man child who wants m̶̡̢̢̻̝͓̩̗̜̰͙̣͔͚̯̮̮̭͍̒͂̃̉̂́̏͒̇͐́͜͜͝ͅǫ̵̨̡̡̧̥̭̻̣̗͈̳͖͚͚̩͍̹̝̗̰̜̜͙͇͐͐̍́́̽͆͗̇͗̔̚̚͝͝͠r̷̨̦̭͔̲̖̠͍͓̞̺̗̺̼͉̓̿̊̌̈́͆̎̃̄̍͂͜͜ͅȩ̵̡̢̫̳͎͕͙̻͙͈̩͕̰̳͚͚̝͍̲̠̟̫͖̮̖̞͉̾̑͆͆͜ money.
The federal government doesn’t have the rights to run said programs I would assume. A good example is FEMA. When a hurricane comes in FEMA cannot just go into a state and start doing what is needed, it violates the states rights. So FEMA has to follow the orders of the state and drop supplies and aid wherever directed by the state. A good example of this falling apart was when FEMA shipped aid to Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria I think it was. There was not a good system of distribution set up and FEMA had no rights to take over in said actions. So a lot of water and other supplies quite literally got piled up on the side of runways and left there for months and months while the people needed it.
This is a problem no one actually wants to fix, all political sides and their corporate owners benefit from a massive influx of migrants illegal or otherwise. The only people paying the price is the working class, which the ruling class has no problems shitting all over.
“Illegal” immigrants depress wages, especially when you strip them of rights.
Those illegals are going to come here and take all the jobs we didn’t want to do!
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Can we stop pretending that Texas is still a state please?
What does this even mean?
To combat this we’ll need to live in reality. This has a “not my president” tinge to it.
It means they get to be a state when they fucking act like it. America should secede from them. Enough is enough.
I don’t think the answer is secession, tbh.
The answer isn’t secession, it’s dismissal.
America should overthrow Texas
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LOL, regieme change now!
LOL, regieme change now!
Can you stop spouting misinformation claiming it isn’t?
Yeah, but when I sneak a bunch of illegal immigrants into the country it’s “hUmAn TrAfFiCkInG¡”.
Could anyone with academic or professionally relevant expertise explain how this is legal? I’m confused on what grounds and how a state could interfere with immigration, which is a federal issue, much less interstate transportation (another federal purview) actions regarding it.
Is the Biden administration just not enforcing the federal jurisdiction and allowing it by ignoring them violating the constitution? Or is it there’re no laws around this even though the constitution doesn’t allow states to do this? Whatever the reason, I’m utterly confused about why it is being tolerated.
Here you go, it’s been fought in court and it’s legal-ish.
Nice to see that Texas and Florida are competing for the worst state.
Why not just take all the homeless from Chicago and send them to warm Florida?
You know this is going to back fire on Texas, states might require permits or taxes to travel to and from a state.
They can’t. several supreme court cases already give aeright to travel. Immigration belongs to the federal government
Somebody should explain that to all the Texas towns trying to ban traveling out of state for an abortion.
I don’t think those are gonna work either.
Which ones
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I’ve been all over the US and pretty sure I’ve never been in or through Illinois with exception to flights. I think you’re greatly overestimating the size of Illinois and underestimating available options of US driving travel.
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Tons of freight moves along i40 as well. It never approaches Illinois. You might be familiar with the traversal lanes up there, but there are several main thoroughfares south of there. 40, 20 and 10 all have tons of e/w traffic. All are south of Illinois. It’s not that hard to avoid one medium sized state.
That would be pretty unconstitutional.
bans travel to other states for an abortion
having busses travel from other states is unconstitutional
Pick a lane
Banning travel to other states for an abortion is also very clearly unconstitutional. There are still pretty big differences between restricting travel from specific states for something that is completely legal (driving a bus) and restricting your citizens from going outside your state to do something that is illegal in your state (abortion). One is a matter of jurisdiction while the other is a matter of travel restriction.
I’m not sure whether that would be a feasible solution. The undocumented part of “undocumented immgrant” is a result of immigrants bypassing a similar system when entering the country.
“Hey let’s find a solution to our broken immigration system”
Texas: “nope send dem to dem LiBeRaLs”
“Wow Texas youre so smart, you’re totally not trafficking people like the cartels”
They should just secede and become a desert version of North korea.
Edit:corrected
They should just succeed and become a desert version of North korea.
Do you mean secede?
secede. Dumbass.
Wish a texas would
What?
You know this is going to back fire on Texas, states might require permits or taxes to travel to and from a state.
I’m just waiting for the /s
Ha-ha.
As I understand it, this is a suggestion that it would be okay for states to take blatantly unconstitutional action in retribution for the likely criminal acts of the Texas state government. I’m hoping that I’m wrong, because that’s nuts.
blatantly unconstitutional action
In this economy? Surely no one would do that, lest they face the consequences.
Consequences.
Consequences… why does that word seem so strange now?
Consequences… why does that word seem so strange now?
We are most certainly like-minded in that regard.
If unconstitutional action is something that Democrats and Republicans see as necessary, authoritarianism has won, and everyone/everything else has lost.
Meh, it’s a comment from an anonymous rando on the Internet. I’m a lot more concerned with the fact that the state of Texas is in the human trafficking business than OP’s comment.
Republicans: there’s never any money to help people, but there’s always money for racism.
