On Sunday, Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson appeared on CBS News’s “Face the Nation to complain about Texas Governor Greg Abbott sending illegals to his metropolis.
He additionally took to X and centered his ire on Abbott moderately than the creater of this humanitarian catastrophe, Joe Biden.
This morning simply after 1 a.m., a non-public Boeing 777 originating from San Antonio, Texas landed on the Rockford/Chicago airport carrying 350 asylum seekers. There was no communication from Texas, and the Metropolis of Chicago was alerted by authorities in Rockford relating to the flight.
— Mayor Brandon Johnson (@ChicagosMayor) December 31, 2023
Upon touchdown, asylum seekers have been positioned on buses chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and dropped in varied surrounding suburbs, left to seek out their approach to the town.
That is the second recorded occasion of the Texas governor transporting asylum seekers through personal airplane.
— Mayor Brandon Johnson (@ChicagosMayor) December 31, 2023
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) slammed Johnson for specializing in Governor Abbott moderately than Biden.
Roy wrote on X, “You need @JoeBiden’s phone number? I am sure one of your Democrat U.S. Senators or Congress-critters has it.”
You want @JoeBiden’s telephone quantity? I’m positive one among your Democrat U.S. Senators or Congress-critters has it. https://t.co/yVAhpwrNNO
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) January 1, 2024
Throughout his look on Face the Nation, Johnson stated, “But what we can’t have is a governor, in the state of Texas, acting the way he is acting. And quite frankly, the rogue buses that are being dropped off across this country in the middle of the night leaving people with no real support at all, no coordination with the local municipalities. That type of chaos is certainlly dividing our country.”
“What is very clear is not only are we providing mental health-related services as well as vaccinations and health screenings and providing medical healthcare for these families when they arrive the moment they get off those buses, we are not seeing that same treatment at the border.”
“In other words, there’s no health screenings, no vaccinations, that process at the border is absolutely raggedy and reckless.”
“However we can’t have a governor who decides that he’s going to cling to the vestiges of [Confederate President] Jefferson Davis, once we needs to be pulling to the hopes and aspirations that have been left by [black abolitionist] Frederick Douglass.“
Rep. Roy was not the one one who took Johnson to process.
You obtained precisely as a lot communication and warning of their arrival as Texas did.
When you’ve got an issue, take it up with the federal authorities, headed by the president of your celebration. https://t.co/1wqPPGJapq
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) January 1, 2024
Fastened it for you: “Upon touchdown, asylum seekers have been positioned on buses chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and dropped in varied surrounding suburbs of the sanctuary metropolis of Chicago. All completely throughout the legal guidelines the mayor of Chicago and the vast majority of native Democrat leaders…
— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) January 1, 2024
You must welcome these hard-working, undocumented staff to your proud metropolis. Why do you hate migrants?
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 1, 2024