Several migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight.

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.

    • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      161·
      10 months ago

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

      This is just throwing them around like a football.

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
      103·
      10 months ago

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

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        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

        • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
          24·
          10 months ago

          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?

            • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              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.

                • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  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.

            • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
              22·
              10 months ago

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

              • Sagifurius@lemm.ee
                02·
                10 months ago

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

                • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
                  3·
                  10 months ago

                  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.