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.
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).