ROCKFORD, Ill. (WLS) – Eight migrant buses were in route to Chicago Sunday morning after a plane from Texas carrying over 300 asylum seekers landed in Rockford overnight.

The migrants were flown from Texas to Illinois in a jumbo jet, landing at Rockford International Airport, Rockford ABC affiliate WTVO reported.

The migrant crisis Chicago has been grappling with has once again made its way to the suburbs.

After the plane landed, the passengers were reportedly immediately put on buses heading to Chicago’s landing zone near West Polk Street and South Desplaines Street.

The City of Chicago issued a statement Sunday afternoon, saying that city officials had been notified by Rockford of the plane’s arrival. Eight buses from Rockford have dropped off migrants in multiple suburbs on the way to Chicago, but they have not yet reached Chicago, city officials said.

  • @[email protected]
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    911 months ago

    You know this is going to back fire on Texas, states might require permits or taxes to travel to and from a state.

    I’m just waiting for the /s

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      611 months ago

      Ha-ha.

      As I understand it, this is a suggestion that it would be okay for states to take blatantly unconstitutional action in retribution for the likely criminal acts of the Texas state government. I’m hoping that I’m wrong, because that’s nuts.

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          211 months ago

          Consequences… why does that word seem so strange now?

          We are most certainly like-minded in that regard.

          If unconstitutional action is something that Democrats and Republicans see as necessary, authoritarianism has won, and everyone/everything else has lost.

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            011 months ago

            Meh, it’s a comment from an anonymous rando on the Internet. I’m a lot more concerned with the fact that the state of Texas is in the human trafficking business than OP’s comment.