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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, begging him to stop sending illegal aliens by bus to his state, and the sanctuary city of Chicago.
“You are now sending asylum seekers from Texas to the Upper Midwest in the middle of winter - many without coats, without shoes to protect them from the snow - to a city whose shelters are already overfilled with migrants you sent here,” Pritzker is quoted saying in the letter.
The plea did not go over well with Abbott.
“Governor Pritzker was all too proud to call Illinois ‘the most welcoming state in the nation’ until Governor Abbott began transporting migrants to Chicago,” Abbott spokesman Andrew Mahaleris reportedly told the Austin American-Statesman. “Instead of complaining about migrants sent from Texas, where we are also preparing to experience severe winter weather across the state, Governor Pritzker should call on his party leader to finally do his job and secure the border — something he continues refusing to do.”