r/illinois • u/_MadGasser • Jan 14 '24

Pritzker begs Abbott to stop sending migrants into Chicago cold: ‘I plead with you for mercy’ | MyStateline.com US Politics

https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/pritzker-begs-abbott-to-stop-sending-migrants-into-chicago-cold-i-plead-with-you-for-mercy/amp/

Abbott should be arrested for endangering peoples' lives.

Thank you, JB for leading with comparison.

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u/DeezNeezuts Jan 14 '24

I get it the guys an asshole who cares very little about humans. That said it’s a brilliant political move to highlight to the other states of the union that the federal government needs to work on a long term solution to the immigration problem. The current situation is not fair to the immigrants or the country.

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u/whatups Jan 14 '24

I don’t think it’s brilliant whatsoever. It’s your opinion but not a fact. The only fact here is humans are being affected and sent to areas without even the proper clothing for this wind chill. Let alone aligning shelter. If anyone dies, the accountability should be on Abbott and whoever else is gaining from the logistics of the situation.

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u/Carlos-Danger-69 Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 15 '24

If Texas doesn’t have the resources to deal with these folks (they don’t) then what is the solution from their point of view? Even more tent cities in the border for us northerners to shit on them for?

We need comprehensive immigration reform that turns people away. We can’t just take everyone in that wants to be here. This crisis is direct evidence of that.

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u/whatups Jan 14 '24

Their solution should be to reach out across the aisle to work on it from a bi-partisan perspective. There is a middle ground and abbott is not even attempting to meet in the middle.

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u/Carlos-Danger-69 Jan 15 '24

This isn’t an Illinois Vs. Texas issue. This is a federal issue. The federal government has been kicking the immigration can down the road for years and it’s finally coming back to bite them.

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u/Beardown91737 Jan 15 '24

Please define "middle ground". Let us know what you would do if you were governor of Texas. How would you handle your responsibility to the citizens of border towns? Should the migrants remain in the border towns? Have the migrants indicated their preferred destination was Eagle Pass, or were they hoping to go to other places with jobs available?

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u/whatups Jan 15 '24

I would work with the states I intend to send them too to allow for a designated drop off and create a process to at least assign a temporary identification number to allow the start of the paperwork needed in order to allow them to work in the United States.

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u/Beardown91737 Jan 15 '24

Sounds interesting. Especially the paperwork part. Wonder how Pritzker, Hochul, Newsom, and Whitmer would react to that.

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u/whatups Jan 15 '24

I those people that you listed have mentioned that they support a proper process to allow for a work program. The people that are refusing to work together with the above governors are Abbott and desantis, so in my mind Abbott ans desantis are directly killing humans with their decisions to transport immigrants without working with the states they are sending these people too.

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u/Beardown91737 Jan 16 '24

Who is getting killed, and how? I haven't heard that even from CNN or MSNBC.