Suburbs Put the Brakes on Migrant Bus Arrivals After Crackdowns in Chicago and New York
Published on January 5, 2024
TRENTON, N.J.—In Edison, New Jersey, the mayor warned he would send people back to the border if they came to his city in buses. In Rockford, Illinois, authorities said 355 illegal immigrants who landed on a charter flight wouldn’t be staying. “NO MIGRANT BUSES THIS EXIT,” signs along Interstate 55 in Grundy County, Illinois, southwest of Chicago said ahead of Christmas weekend. Nervous officials in suburbs and outlying cities near Chicago and New York are giving illegal immigrants arriving from the southern border a cold shoulder amid attempts to circumvent restrictions on buses in those two cities, opening a new front in response to efforts led by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to pay for illegal immigrants to leave his state....