Brandon Johnson lashes out at Texas for sending more illegal immigrants to Chicago

On Sunday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed that Texas Governor Greg Abbott was sowing "seeds of chaos" by sending illegal immigrants from his state to the Windy City. Abbott has taken to removing illegal immigrants who cross the US-Mexico border into Texas under the lax border policies of the Biden administration and has been sending them to cities that have proclaimed themselves to be sanctuary cities.

These include New York City and Chicago. Abbott also recently signed a law making it illegal to cross the international border into Texas, facilitating the arrest of illegal immigrants.

In an interview with Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan asked Johnson about reports of a plane from Texas landing in Chicago carrying immigrants, and what happens next. 

"What we have is clearly, clearly an international and federal crisis that local governments are being asked to subsidize, and this is unsustainable, none of our local economies are positioned to be able to carry on such a mission," Johnson said. "And what we have attempted to do is to create structure and some coordination around this—this humanitarian crisis." 

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