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.

BigDanishGuy,

Welcome to pedantry corner, you have activated my trap card.

It’s “en route” not “in route” www.dictionary.com/e/in-route-or-en-route/

squidman,

Republicans: there’s never any money to help people, but there’s always money for racism.

ElBarto,
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah, but when I sneak a bunch of illegal immigrants into the country it’s “hUmAn TrAfFiCiNg¡”.

rivermonster,

Could anyone with academic or professionally relevant expertise explain how this is legal? I’m confused on what grounds and how a state could interfere with immigration, which is a federal issue, much less interstate transportation (another federal purview) actions regarding it.

Is the Biden administration just not enforcing the federal jurisdiction and allowing it by ignoring them violating the constitution? Or is it there’re no laws around this even though the constitution doesn’t allow states to do this? Whatever the reason, I’m utterly confused about why it is being tolerated.

BOFH,

Here you go, it’s been fought in court and it’s legal-ish.

verdantbanana, (edited )
@verdantbanana@lemmy.world avatar

vote biden to make it better

politifact.com/…/create-pathway-citizenship-nearl…

zbyte64,

I’m setting the bar at not making it worse, because the other guy definitely would make it worse.

Transporter_Room_3,

It’s a sad day when the bar is on the floor, but some people broke out shovels…

Spaceballstheusername,

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.

Good_morning,

The perfect username doesn’t exi-…

Copernican, (edited )

Not entirely true. It’s takes a long time to apply, but the feds actually.helpwd fast track work permits for asylum speakers by having staff on site in NYC to immediately process permits. nyc.gov/…/mayor-adams-expedited-sprint-identify-a…

Suavevillain,
@Suavevillain@lemmy.world avatar

It is pretty sick to play around with real human lives like this.

quo,

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    Duamerthrax,

    Non-border states also have undocumented immigrants. What are you talking about? The farther they travel from the border, the better the pay.

    DeadDjembe,

    When you make false promises so the immigrants board the plane or bus, then schedule their asylum hearing across the country, it is very much playing with people’s lives.

    White_Flight,

    yeah, they should all stay in Texas, right

    zbyte64,

    Or maybe we should give these people a choice in where they go?

    This is just throwing them around like a football.

    macrocephalic,

    When you put it that way, we should be applauding how much they’re helping the immigrants get out of Texas.

    Liz,

    Texas does have a more developed system for handling asylum seekers, so yeah.

    quo,

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    Liz,

    If it snows in Texas do we point to Illinois and say then that Texans should be able to adapt fast enough because the Illini can handle a problem they’re used to?

    Sagifurius,

    People literally do, so?

    Liz,

    Then those people are wrong and don’t understand how dealing with snow or asylum seekers works.

    Sagifurius,

    They weren’t wrong. Some of those fuckers died of exposure in 37 degree weather, inside a house, a simple blanket prevents that.

    Liz,

    The inability for an individual to handle a situation and for a local government to handle a situation are two different things. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that there wasn’t a single snow plow in Texas.

    Sagifurius,

    Graders are snow plows so, no, they have a bunch.

    Liz,

    Let’s pretend that they do. Do you think the local Texas municipalities know everyone who has a plow attachment for their grader and loader that’s road-appropriate and do you think they have contracts with them for road plowing in the event that it snows in Texas? Do they have salt or sand spreads, too? Because if the answer to any of those is no, they ain’t clearing the roads to a safe condition.

    Now, let’s go back to the original point. Chicago almost certainly has some capacity to handle asylum seekers. They’re a large city with an international airport. But that capacity is probably limited, since most of their direct international flights are coming from Canada. They don’t have enough capacity to handle having extra seekers flown in from other areas that typically handle more. They don’t have enough temporary housing contracted, they don’t have enough lawyers that specialize in asylum, they don’t have enough placement contacts to get people integrated while they wait for court, etc.

    Having a system to deal with either snow or asylum seekers requires specialized knowledge, equipment, and organization, none of which are easy to scale overnight when you’re suddenly faced with a problem different to the one you’re set up for. The people shipping migrants across the country know this perfectly well, but they’re counting on you to be ignorant about it, hoping that you’ll believe a city can just turn on a dime and perfectly deal with a problem or a magnitude they’ve never faced before.

    Sagifurius, (edited )

    All you’ve demonstrated here is you don’t know what a grader is, or what counties do.

    Liz,

    Edit: nevermind, this conversation has run its course.

    Sagifurius,

    “Let’s pretend that they do.” You aren’t half as clever you think you are.

    quo,

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    Liz,

    Both are unexpected events for which the affected area isn’t equipped but the other is. The main difference here is that people are responsible for dumping these humans into an area that’s not equipped to handle them, whereas no one is responsible for snow.

    quo,

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    Liz,

    I’m not sure that’s true, but I’d have to double check. I’m pretty sure it’s federal money to be spent as the state sees fit.

    Also, in this analogy, this is a regular snow storm. It’s just, you know, you gotta have snow plows.

    JJROKCZ,

    Does it? Seems like they system boils down to:

    Put them in cages Ship them to another city/state Kill them Use them as cheap disposable labor

    000,

    When are we going to start seeing criminal prosecution for these antics? They are coercing these immigrants onto a bus and giving them no idea where they’ll wind up- seems like a textbook case of kidnapping. Maybe start slapping some of the politicians with felonies and this will stop.

    ghostdoggtv,

    Hey since the border officials in those other states aren’t doing their jobs, we should stop paying them and give their money to their victims

    TheFriar,

    I was thinking, this is so obviously a stunt by Abbott to get the blue states to bitch about immigration. Why don’t these blue state reps say, hey, we get it. It’s a financial burden to house immigrants. Why don’t we all lighten the load and skim $1b off the defense budget?

    Why won’t they?

    Well…I guess it’s because theyre all neoliberal fuckwits that love that defense budget like it’s 2001.

    And I don’t think this is because border officials aren’t doing their jobs. Their jobs isn’t to bash and deter, but wrangle once someone new comes in. Americans love paperwork.

    ExLisper,

    Why not just take all the homeless from Chicago and send them to warm Florida?

    Illuminostro,

    Why isn’t this considered kidnapping?

    pineapplelover,

    Human trafficking

    000,

    Because it’s being done by politicians, who are apparently above the law.

    phoenixz,

    A little bit of human trafficking just to rile your base is never a bad thing, eh?

    nilloc,

    No, unfortunately the cruelty is the point.

    Pyr_Pressure,

    Why are refugees and illegal immigrants a state responsibility?

    Shouldn’t it be handled federally? Why is there no department for handling this sort of thing instead of Texas having supreme decision making in their fates?

    LarryTheMatador,

    Neo-fascist state rulers are engaged in an arms race right now to virtue signal who can be cruelest to the most vulnerable and youre like “Why is this joe bidens fault?” Get the fuck outta here with your blame shifting.

    spyd3r, (edited )
    @spyd3r@sh.itjust.works avatar

    This is a problem no one actually wants to fix, all political sides and their corporate owners benefit from a massive influx of migrants illegal or otherwise. The only people paying the price is the working class, which the ruling class has no problems shitting all over.

    macrocephalic,

    Those illegals are going to come here and take all the jobs we didn’t want to do!

    zbyte64,

    “Illegal” immigrants depress wages, especially when you strip them of rights.

    PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

    Why is there no department for handling this sort of thing instead of Texas having supreme decision making in their fates?

    The federal government gives a lot of money to Texas for exactly this. The federal government basically goes “eh, it’s not worth it for us to try to do, since the state will be able to respond more agilely than the feds. So we’ll give them the money we would spend, and let them figure it out.”

    The issue is that Greg Abbott is a greedy little man child who wants m̶̡̢̢̻̝͓̩̗̜̰͙̣͔͚̯̮̮̭͍̒͂̃̉̂́̏͒̇͐́͜͜͝ͅǫ̵̨̡̡̧̥̭̻̣̗͈̳͖͚͚̩͍̹̝̗̰̜̜͙͇͐͐̍́́̽͆͗̇͗̔̚̚͝͝͠r̷̨̦̭͔̲̖̠͍͓̞̺̗̺̼͉̓̿̊̌̈́͆̎̃̄̍͂͜͜ͅȩ̵̡̢̫̳͎͕͙̻͙͈̩͕̰̳͚͚̝͍̲̠̟̫͖̮̖̞͉̾̑͆͆͜ money.

    lntl,

    Rockford is nicer than Chicago anyway

    GroundedGator,

    Only if you need a rehab facility.

    Pratai,

    Can we stop pretending that Texas is still a state please?

    freeindv,

    Can you stop spouting misinformation claiming it isn’t?

    capital,

    What does this even mean?

    To combat this we’ll need to live in reality. This has a “not my president” tinge to it.

    Pratai,

    It means they get to be a state when they fucking act like it. America should secede from them. Enough is enough.

    Lemminary,

    I don’t think the answer is secession, tbh.

    Pratai,

    The answer isn’t secession, it’s dismissal.

    Bitflip,

    America should overthrow Texas

    rivermonster,

    LOL, regieme change now!

    PriorityMotif,
    @PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

    We should flip it like on one of those HGTV shows.

    rivermonster,

    LOL, regieme change now!

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