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2022-09-08 -Land of the Free
Democrat Lori Lightfoot: ‘Immoral, Unpatriotic’ to Bus Migrants to Chicago
[Breitbart] Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) now says it is “immoral” and “unpatriotic” for Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to bus migrants from Texas to the sanctuary city.
The Picnic Ant Lady squeaks
Last week, Abbott started busing border crossers to the sanctuary city of Chicago after sending thousands over the last few months to the sanctuary cities of New York City, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Initially, Lightfoot balked at the migrant buses by calling them “racist and xenophobic.” While visiting a shelter last week, Lightfoot called Abbott’s buses “immoral, unpatriotic” and claimed the operation “defies the values of who we are as Americans.”

“We received families, single men, a mix of folks from Latin America bused here inhumanly from Texas … we can disagree on policy and politics, but you don’t treat people this way,” Lightfoot told the Chicago Tribune.

After having received just 125 border crossers on buses from Texas, Lightfoot’s office launched a website pleading with Chicago residents to donate gift cards, clothing, baby formula, and other necessities to the new arrivals.

At the same time, Lightfoot has asked the federal government for help.

The roughly 125 border crossers who have arrived in Chicago over the last week are a fraction of what American border communities witness daily on the United States-Mexico border.

In one week, for instance, agents in the Del Rio, Texas area apprehended almost 13,000 border crossers and illegal aliens — averaging almost 1,900 apprehensions a day in the region — which is about a third of Del Rio’s total population.

For Texas, Abbott’s migrant busing operation is a massive cost saver.

Whereas Texans have paid about $12 million so far to bus migrants to Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities, the cost to state taxpayers for illegal immigration runs at about $11 billion a year, indicating that Abbott’s operation is easily paying for itself.

Related from 9/2: Chicago Mayor Lightfoot welcomes illegal immigrants from Texas: 'We'll rent the buses next time'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Imagine leaving some sh!thole country and then finding yourself in Chicago, you don’t treat people this way,” Lightfoot told the Chicago Tribune.
Posted by Classer 2022-09-08 00:12||   2022-09-08 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 If immigrants were an advantage, elites like her would be hoarding them and refusing to share with the rest of us, like they do pretty much everything else that is good in life.

Instead, having them is immoral. Let that sink in.
Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-09-08 01:12||   2022-09-08 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I actually feel sorry for those immigrants being bussed to Chicago and that goon mayor.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-08 04:02||   2022-09-08 04:02|| Front Page Top

#4 She's an extremist since the majority in Texas decided to help them get to Chicago.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2022-09-08 06:02||   2022-09-08 06:02|| Front Page Top

#5 

While, Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot (LSGD) had initially welcomed the the redistribution of illegals immigrants. Now after less than only 300, and only a few months,she see's the $$$$ related support, cultural and Gang crime issues popping up. So she is attacking the Texas Gov. redistribution instead of the DC SWAMP / Biden and their OPEN BORDERS that are the actual source cause.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-08 08:39||   2022-09-08 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Fuck off, Lurch.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-08 09:05||   2022-09-08 09:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Lori the picnic ant lady speaks.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-08 09:37||   2022-09-08 09:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Abbott should respond with a simple shut the fuck up bitch.
Posted by Chris 2022-09-08 12:37||   2022-09-08 12:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Immoral and unpatriotic to let them cross the border from Mexico to Texas but, hey, that's Democrats for you.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-08 14:47||   2022-09-08 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Borders don't exist.
Borders are immoral.
Borders are racist.
It is our duty as Americans to welcome them.

Hey, not in my city!!
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-08 15:36||   2022-09-08 15:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Lori Lightfoot is among the people I definitely do NOT look to for moral guidance.

Also, thought morality was subjective and there weren't any fixed rules, etc., etc.?
Posted by Tom 2022-09-08 15:55||   2022-09-08 15:55|| Front Page Top

#12 If transporting illegals throughout the country is immoral and unpatriotic, the Biden regime is guilty as charged.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-09-08 19:15||   2022-09-08 19:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Chicago is a 'Sanctuary City' so suck it up, buttercup.
Posted by magpie 2022-09-08 20:40||   2022-09-08 20:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Chicago is a 'Sanctuary City' so suck it up, buttercup.
Posted by magpie 2022-09-08 20:40||   2022-09-08 20:40|| Front Page Top

#15 /\ ...that double post was weird and unintended.
Posted by magpie 2022-09-08 20:42||   2022-09-08 20:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Stray gamma rays can happen to anyone, magpie.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-08 21:54||   2022-09-08 21:54|| Front Page Top

#17 Apparently someone in the state capital explained the costs and how it was a bad thing.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-09-08 22:03||   2022-09-08 22:03|| Front Page Top

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