A South Facet Chicago activist, who launched a state consultant bid in hopes of curbing the repercussions of the Windy Metropolis’s sanctuary standing, mentioned on Wednesday that metropolis leaders want to know “illegal” means “illegal.”
Chicago Towards Violence founder Andre Smith instructed Fox News the burgeoning migrant disaster within the metropolis isn’t the fault of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott – as metropolis leaders have claimed – however Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson.
“Seeing our homeless on the [streets] and crime is at an all-time high, you know you can’t make ‘illegal’ ‘legal’ no matter… how you do it,” Smith mentioned.
Johnson nonetheless, mentioned just lately his workplace has “responded to this humanitarian mission with the full force of government,” earlier than calling Abbott “reckless” for sending buses “all over the state of Illinois.”
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Lately arrived migrants in a makeshift shelter operated by the town of Chicago at OHare Worldwide Airport on Aug. 31, 2023. ((Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Pictures))
Smith mentioned he has launched a Democratic main bid for the Illinois State Home, the place he might be difficult Rep. Kimberly du Buclet based on native stories.
Smith additionally recounted being arrested final 12 months after he and two different males protested in entrance of a defunct college that officers started sending migrants to for sheltering functions.
“In the community that I was born in, which is called Woodlawn in the city of Chicago, I did get arrested. I heard that they were bringing the migrants in on a CTA bus that was paid for by taxpayers’ money… So I stood in front of the bus, and I refused for the illegal migrants to get into the Wadsworth School,” he mentioned.
“A lot of schools closed because of lack of funding. And how do you think those children feel now that they’re driving past and walking past the schools that they were rejected from that now, migrants are living in?” Smith requested.
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Smith mentioned america is a nation of legal guidelines, and subsequently each particular person within the nation ought to be held to the identical authorized commonplace, arguing that migrants should not.
He mentioned that dubbing a municipality a “sanctuary city” shouldn’t moot authorized requirements.
Smith mentioned if he’s elected to workplace he’ll pursue a recall of Johnson, who defeated fellow left-wing Mayor Lori Lightfoot final 12 months.
He added that Chicago’s sanctuary standing ought to be put up for a well-liked referendum by the town’s voters.
Nonetheless, Smith additionally praised a suburban metropolis’s councilman for remarks that “America Reports” host Sandra Smith reported had been initially misconstrued.
Naperville Councilman Josh McBroom proposed that his prosperous Democratic leaning group voluntarily open their properties to migrants.
Initially, McBroom was reportedly criticized on the political proper, till the feedback had been clarified as as a substitute a problem to folks in Naperville with pro-sanctuary or pro-migrant yard indicators and slogans.
Smith mentioned McBroom is subsequently the uncommon Illinois public official who understands the migrant disaster and the unfavorable results it has had on communities.
