Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) has written a letter to President Joe Biden encouraging him to take “swift motion” in regard to the unlawful immigrant disaster in his state, one thing he calls an “untenable state of affairs.”
“Sadly, the welcome and support Illinois has been offering to those asylum seekers has not been matched with help by the federal authorities,” Pritzker wrote. “Most critically, the federal authorities’s lack of intervention and coordination on the border has created an untenable state of affairs for Illinois.”
The state of affairs is “untenable” for the whole nation, Mr. Pritzker, as a result of the federal authorities hasn’t supported any effort to safe the nation’s border.
Studies point out that the city of Chicago has been inundated with over 17,000 unlawful immigrants in simply over a 12 months. Illinois, this previous summer season, cracked the highest 10 of states coping with unlawful aliens.
They nonetheless rank well behind Arizona and Texas, precise border states bearing the brunt of the Biden open border insurance policies.
Upping the strain: @GovPritzker sends @POTUS letter on migrant disaster pic.twitter.com/W5lKLgscrT
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) October 2, 2023
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Governor Pritzker turns into yet one more Democrat who as soon as celebrated the idea of “sanctuary” for unlawful aliens to talk out about Biden’s border disaster as soon as it confirmed up on his doorstep.
He joins New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who advised migrants that her state was out of room and urged them to go elsewhere, and New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, who fretted that unlawful aliens had been going to “destroy” his metropolis.
BREAKING: Mayor Adams principally conceding New York Metropolis is completed due to unlawful immigration and warns New Yorkers illegals will flood ALL neighborhoods. pic.twitter.com/Lj5E3BSvDX
— nycphotog (@nycphotog) September 7, 2023
Pritzker, although, has an thought so loopy that it simply may work.
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“There may be way more that may and have to be accomplished on a federal stage to handle a nationwide humanitarian disaster that’s presently being shouldered by state and native governments with out help,” his letter reads.
What if, he proposed, we truly put any individual in command of the border?
“At the start, I like to recommend that there be one particular person within the federal authorities who works instantly for you within the White Home who can lead the oversight of our nation’s efforts on the border,” mentioned Pritzker.
We may name that particular person a … a border czar. Yeah, that’s the ticket! If solely there have been any individual who may fill that function.
Migrants know that Joe Biden and his ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris, will proceed to let the border stay open.
Border safety is nationwide safety, and this administration just isn’t defending our nation.pic.twitter.com/CzAV8jc1Hq
— Republican State Management Committee (@RSLC) September 26, 2023
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Pritzker Celebrated Illinois As ‘Beacon Of Hope’ For Unlawful Immigrants
Very like his Democrat colleagues in New York, Governor Pritzker’s letter to Biden urging one thing be accomplished with all of the unlawful immigrants stands in stark distinction to his earlier stance.
Two years in the past, Pritzker introduced that he was signing legislation that may develop protections for unlawful immigrant and refugee communities.
Protections that he declared would make Illinois “probably the most welcoming state within the nation.”
Of word, the laws “require(s) native officers to finish partnerships with ICE.”
You’ll be able to’t beg for federal assist and concurrently have a regulation on the books forcing officers to disregard a federal company referred to as Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Illinoisans have decided – to proceed as a welcoming state that accepts others with open arms and shines as a beacon of hope. pic.twitter.com/J7dDeI11RZ
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) November 10, 2022
Following his election victory in 2022, Pritzker bragged that his triumph was an indication that residents of his state had been happy together with his “sanctuary” insurance policies.
“Illinoisans have decided,” he glowed. “To proceed as a welcoming state that accepts others with open arms and shines as a beacon of hope.”
From a beacon of sunshine for unlawful immigrants to turning the lights off and asking Uncle Joe to lock the door in two years.
Wonderful.
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