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Pritzker urges Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop migrant dropoffs amid winter storm: ‘I plead with you for mercy’
Chicago Sun Times ^

Posted on 01/12/2024 1:29:48 PM PST by Tench_Coxe

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday sent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a sweeping letter about the ongoing migrant crisis, urging him to stop dropoffs during a dangerous winter storm.

“While action is pending at the federal level, I plead with you for mercy for the thousands of people who are powerless to speak for themselves,” Pritzker said in the letter. “Please, while winter is threatening vulnerable people’s lives, suspend your transports and do not send more people to our state.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abbott; aliens; angryletter; braking; busing; foreign; illinois; pleadwithbiden; pritzker; sanctuarycities; sanctuarystate; texas
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To: Tench_Coxe
He invited them to Illinois. Suck it up, fat boy.🤡🤡
41 posted on 01/12/2024 1:52:42 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Pox

The “strange reason” that illegals want to go to the Chicago area is that there are many businesses there that will hire them. I am told that there are promoters and recruiters in Mexico that screen and direct illegals to specific businesses along with the kind of fake IDs they should present and stories they should tell to get hired.


42 posted on 01/12/2024 1:53:18 PM PST by Rockingham (`)
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To: ducttape45
I know exactly what I’d tell him.

Yea, its cold in Texas too.

43 posted on 01/12/2024 1:53:32 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Laslo Fripp
Which governor?

The Governor of Chicago is a damned DEM!

44 posted on 01/12/2024 1:54:21 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Tench_Coxe

These folks Abbott is shipping to sanctuary Illinois are choosing to go there. These are Pritzker’s charges, not non sanctuary Texas who never put out the welcome mat for them. Pritzker is trying to shake down taxpayers of the other states through the Federal government who is stiffing him right now to pay for his virtue welcome mat. He failed to get Biden to cough up the money. Now, he expects the taxpayers of Texas to foot the bill for his virtue. Abbott should double up sending them.


45 posted on 01/12/2024 1:55:05 PM PST by chuckee
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To: Tench_Coxe

Pritzker can take them into his house.


46 posted on 01/12/2024 1:55:09 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: llevrok

I live 18 miles from the border it has been very very cold and winds like you wouldn’t believe . Of course it warms up during the day but today it’s been blisteringly cold with 30 mph winds gusting up to 40 or 50.

And hey they ask for them, they made themselves a sanctuary City, we didn’t. As far as the illegals they made a choice to leave their homes and go into the unknown.

I’m not hard-hearted and I have fed them before and I have given them blankets before and I’ve called 911 for them before but they should be in their own country.


47 posted on 01/12/2024 1:55:58 PM PST by tiki
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To: Tench_Coxe

My Response for the Governor:

Thank You for your concern, I have forwarded your communication to President Biden in the hopes that he takes up your cause.
Good Luck


48 posted on 01/12/2024 1:56:39 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: llevrok
"When it’s the max Texas summer heat and humidity, does Pritzker have the same sense of humanity for the illegals?"


49 posted on 01/12/2024 1:57:51 PM PST by plain talk
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To: nopardons

That’s a distinction without a difference!

Chicago doesn’t have a governor.


50 posted on 01/12/2024 1:58:20 PM PST by Laslo Fripp (Semper Fidelis)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Almost forgot:

Why can’t he just throw out all the paying customers at his Hyatt Hotels and move the Illegal Aliens in?


51 posted on 01/12/2024 1:58:27 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Tench_Coxe
"“While action is pending at the federal level, I plead with you for mercy for the thousands of people who are powerless to speak for themselves,” Pritzker said in the letter. “Please, while winter is threatening vulnerable people’s lives, suspend your transports and do not send more people to our state.”"

Abbott should send this in reply:

"Do not pretend to lecture the great State of Texas about 'vulnerable people's lives' unless you will join us, right here at the border, to stop this invasion. You stop this invasion, you stop the transports.

As part of our multi-state agreement, Mr. Pritzger, while you call Biden and tell him to #BuildTheWall, you should also fill the Governor's Mansion and every one of your family's billionaire homes plural with these 'vulnerable people's lives'."

52 posted on 01/12/2024 1:58:48 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: spacejunkie2001

why doesn’t he plead with biden to close the border??
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Very easy to understand, there is/ has been/ will be lots of $$$$$$ paid out to Democrats to support open borders. Corruption.

Only problem now is those Democrats faraway from the border , who thought they would never see any illegals, are being flooded with them. I love it, outsmarted and hopefully unseated from the backlash.Do realize, those illegals aren’t leaving, they will quickly turn those cities to $hitholes, possibly for decades…..


53 posted on 01/12/2024 1:59:08 PM PST by delta7
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To: Tench_Coxe

Declaring Illinois as a sanctuary state is all cool until it comes time to do sanctuary state stuff. Jelly Belly was mugged by his own reality.


54 posted on 01/12/2024 1:59:14 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Tench_Coxe

It’s warm in Venezuela. And Haiti. And Guatemala. And the Congo. China is pretty nice in the south.


55 posted on 01/12/2024 1:59:19 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Southern California is nice this time of year.


56 posted on 01/12/2024 1:59:37 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: laplata
Maximize it, Abbott.

I was going to say, Abbott's hands are mostly tied, but he's managed to piss off many in the blue states and the Brandon administration. Kudos for doing that.

57 posted on 01/12/2024 2:00:03 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Fat Boy: “Please, Gov Abbott, let them die in Texas!”


58 posted on 01/12/2024 2:00:24 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: devane617

WHERE ARE OUR GOP SENATE AND HOUSE MEMBERS? Complete silence ...
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$$$$$$


59 posted on 01/12/2024 2:00:44 PM PST by delta7
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To: Tench_Coxe

They have gov issued socks and shower shoes, plus a $5,000 gift card.
Let them check into the nearest motel 6.


60 posted on 01/12/2024 2:01:03 PM PST by 9422WMR
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