Texas plane, 300 migrants land in Rockford; 8 buses in route to Chicago drop off migrants in suburbs
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.
A huge problem with this is that asylum seekers can't work till they're granted asylum. I have no problem with Texas sending migrants to other parts of the country as long as they want to go wherever they are going and it's not all to one small place. Like they can't take all asylum seekers in all of Texas and send them to NYC. But if those people can't work then that's a big issue.
Not entirely true. It's takes a long time to apply, but the feds actually helped fast track work permits for asylum speakers by having staff on site in NYC to immediately process permits. https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/660-23/mayor-adams-expedited-sprint-identify-asylum-seekers-eligible-apply-work-permits
Interesting, I didn't know.