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Chicago not expecting migrant surge ahead of DNC, city official says
Chicago Tribune ^ | August 15, 2024 | Nell Salzman

Posted on 08/15/2024 7:38:50 AM PDT by Salman

Chicago’s top migrant official is walking back a prediction from city leaders last month that tens of thousands of migrants would arrive by bus ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention, saying that there is no “credible intel” that the feared surge will occur.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy mayor for immigration, Beatriz Ponce de León, told reporters in July the city was preparing for as many as 25,000 migrant arrivals tied to the DNC. But President Joe Biden’s June executive order limiting asylum-seekers’ arrivals at the U.S. border has sharply changed the city’s expectations, she said.

No migrant buses have come to Chicago since June 17, according to Brian Berg, spokesman for the city’s Department of Family and Support Services.

“We at this point do not have any credible intel that there will be a large surge in terms of buses coming from Texas,” Ponce de León told the Tribune Tuesday.

City officials had feared in the lead-up to the DNC that Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would use the gathering of Democrats as a political opportunity to send a barrage of buses to Chicago to overwhelm the city’s migrant infrastructure. Chicago has received 46,418 migrants seeking asylum since August 2022, many of them arriving in nearly 1,000 buses sent by Abbott.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; convention; democrats
My guess is they are (technically) not lying.

No "surge" between now and Monday, just the usual shipments continuing.

1 posted on 08/15/2024 7:38:50 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Texas and other states can fix that. Drop them off at the DNC.

Put big “Harris for president” signs on the buses.


2 posted on 08/15/2024 7:43:00 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Salman

Can’t wait to see a reenactment of “The Gauntlet” on the Dan Ryan or the Stevenson or the Eisenhower when a bus rolls into town and the local PD set up blockades to prevent it from moving forward.


3 posted on 08/15/2024 7:43:31 AM PDT by Bernard (whar )
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To: Salman

How does the DNC or Chicago alderman know this?

Did they contact governors Desantis or Abbott?

5.56mm


4 posted on 08/15/2024 7:43:52 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: Salman

LOL... A migrant surge and a pro-HAMAS rally... The Democrats are pathetic and heading for certain disaster. The only people who haven’t figured that out is the same mainstream media who hoodwinked and gaslighted the American people into thinking Joe Biden wasn’t a vegetable. Their influence is wanning and their lies are being exposed.


5 posted on 08/15/2024 7:51:49 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Salman

Mayor ‘Let’s go Brandon’ Johnson.


6 posted on 08/15/2024 7:51:49 AM PDT by Thorium90
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To: Salman

Ok, Governor Abbott.........


7 posted on 08/15/2024 8:06:18 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Salman

Sounds like a great challenge, Gov. Abbot!

Get those packed buses rolling, rolling, rolling.


8 posted on 08/15/2024 8:08:44 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Salman

Who needs a surge when tens of thousands of Venezuelans are already here? You cannot stop at an intersection in Chicago without panhandlers approach your car looking for money or peddling items.

Governor Pritzker, who bought his office, and Mayor Johnson, a nervous Marxist, have spent millions accommodating the illegal aliens.


9 posted on 08/15/2024 8:18:14 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: jerod

.......the mainstream media hoodwinked and gaslighted
Americans into thinking Joe Biden wasn’t a vegetable.......


<><>Police recordings now confirm Biden’s medical emergency in Las Vegas last month.
<><>Democrats attempted to sweep the incident under the rug, as usual
<><>Dems obedient MSM lapdogs were joined in a fierce struggle
<><>they had to plan and scheme and connive
<><>they had to convince unwary voters that demented Biden was in excellent health.

The biggest issue in the Harris campaign is that
<><>Harris knew, and covered up, the mental incapacity of the President of the US.
<><>this is arguably the greatest scandal in the history of the Presidency
<><>the coverup involved those in the Federal Govt who interacted with Biden,
<><>involved everyone in the media who ever interviewed Biden.

Harris is receiving the usual Democrat protectionist treatment.

As expected, Harris declines media interviews.And the
suck-ups let her get away with it. We, the people, will not.


CALL CONGRESS NOW
<><>contact reps using website forms
<><>Clerk of the House has addresses/phone numbersHouse members and Committees
<><>or call (202) 224-3121. U.S. House switchboard operator.


10 posted on 08/15/2024 8:25:17 AM PDT by Liz ( )
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To: All

The Biden/Harris regime glad-handed illegals pouring over
the border, bringing crime and chaos to American communities.

This is their prime election strategy.

How Democrat fraudsters plan to steal 2024 for Kamala:
Battleground America ^ | 7/10/24 | Tara Servatius
FR Posted on 7/11/2024, 8:06:56 AM by Babsig
Source —— Talk radio 989 WORD Greenville SC:
<><>they register illegals at proliferating migrant centers,
<><>they get ballots mailed there (to “harvest” them later)
<><>most illegals dont even know they were registered to vote, and have already moved away.
<><>Dem fraudsters then use the mfg ballots to boost Harris into the WH.


11 posted on 08/15/2024 8:27:34 AM PDT by Liz ( )
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To: Salman

That sound like a challenge. My governor should be loading the buses as we speak if I were him. Maybe a couple cargo planes as well out state guard has some C-130’s and such.


12 posted on 08/15/2024 8:42:14 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Salman

Lets go RED states. Plz. don’t miss this opportunity to stick it too the RATS!


13 posted on 08/15/2024 8:53:27 AM PDT by fhillary2 (PROUD MAGAmaniac)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Excellent idea.


14 posted on 08/15/2024 8:56:10 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Salman

TALK TO US AFTER THE CONVENTION

THEY ARE WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD, IMO.


15 posted on 08/15/2024 9:11:01 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Salman

Chicongo should welcome them in to the DNC fiasco. Most of them could use some free food and a good time watching all the standup comediennes. Timmy will be putting on his best “Macho Man” act. Rather than Timmy and J.D. debating, I’d prefer to see a fist fight.


16 posted on 08/15/2024 10:16:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Banana Voo Doo Queen is putting illegal scumbags on a Free Ride on the American Dream Express.)
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To: Liz

Most illegals don’t even know they were registered to vote, and have already moved away.

But the democrat party makes damned sure the vote every election for the next 100 years.

Talk radio 989 WORD
Good tip a must hear thanks.


17 posted on 08/15/2024 1:31:15 PM PDT by Vaduz
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