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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      179 months ago

      Or maybe we should give these people a choice in where they go?

      This is just throwing them around like a football.

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      When you put it that way, we should be applauding how much they’re helping the immigrants get out of Texas.

    • Liz
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      89 months ago

      Texas does have a more developed system for handling asylum seekers, so yeah.

      • JJROKCZ
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        19 months ago

        Does it? Seems like they system boils down to:

        Put them in cages Ship them to another city/state Kill them Use them as cheap disposable labor