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.
Could anyone with academic or professionally relevant expertise explain how this is legal? I’m confused on what grounds and how a state could interfere with immigration, which is a federal issue, much less interstate transportation (another federal purview) actions regarding it.
Is the Biden administration just not enforcing the federal jurisdiction and allowing it by ignoring them violating the constitution? Or is it there’re no laws around this even though the constitution doesn’t allow states to do this? Whatever the reason, I’m utterly confused about why it is being tolerated.
Here you go, it’s been fought in court and it’s legal-ish.