In a post-City Council news conference Wednesday afternoon, the mayor said Chicago was now expecting at least 14 — and as many as 22 — buses that day and delivered a promise: “I am going to the border as soon as possible.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Wednesday he will visit the southern U.S. border imminently, as city predictions that buses from Texas would spike to new heights were turning true. In a post-City Council meeting news conference Wednesday afternoon, the mayor said Chicago was now expecting at least 14 — and as many as 22 — buses that day and delivered a promise: “I am going to the border as soon as possible.” He did not specify when.
She said it’s “reckless” to send people who have traversed multiple countries on foot — carrying the trauma from their long journey, and many with preexisting medical conditions. It’s a vision volunteers who help migrants say they witness regularly. “They arrive. They’re starving. They don’t have any clothes. The babies have dirty diapers,” said Annie Gomberg, a lead volunteer organizer at the Austin District police station on the West Side.
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