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‘He’s attacking our country!’ Chicago mayor blasts Gov Abbott in migrant meltdown as chickenpox spreads

December 19, 2023 | | Print Article

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson unloaded on Texas Governor Greg Abbott for bussing migrants to his city and other Democrat-run sanctuary cities, claiming the Republican “is attacking our country.”

The mayor’s attack comes on the heels of a 5-year-old child dying Monday at a temporary shelter in Chicago and ignores the real architect of a historic immigration crisis that has seen an astonishing 8 million foreign nationals crash our border in just three years — President Joe Biden.

“The issue is not just how we respond in the city of Chicago,” Johnson ranted. “It’s the fact that we have a governor, a governor, an elected official in the state of Texas, that is placing families on buses without shoes, cold, wet, tired, hungry, afraid, traumatized, and then they come to the city of Chicago where we have homelessness, we have mental health facilities that have been shut down and closed. You have people who are seeking employment.”

“The governor of Texas needs to take a look in the mirror of the chaos he is causing for this country,” he added. “This is not just a Chicago dynamic, he is attacking our country.”

Johnson’s statement is oblivious to the chaos happening every day in overrun Texas towns along the wide-open southern border. It also ignores the real attack on this country, which is the use of illegal immigration to artificially alter voter demographics forevermore in America.

CBS Chicago reported that at least six people have been taken to the hospital from the shelter since Sunday, five children and one teenager. One of the children, 5-year-old Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, died on Sunday. The affiliate cited the Chicago Department of Health to say there was a chickenpox outbreak at the shelter, though no cause of death has been released for the child.

“We are saddened at the tragic death of 5-year-old Jean Carlos Martinez, who was living in the temporary shelter at 2241 S. Halsted Street,” Johnson said in a release. “Initial reports indicate that the child was suffering from a medical emergency and passed away shortly after arriving to Comer Children’s Hospital. City officials are providing support to the family and are still gathering information on this tragedy.”

On that note, Johnson’s policies to counter the migrant crisis are being cited as adding to the problem:

The mayor has taken to suing bus companies for bringing illegal immigrants into the overburdened city, resulting in busses no longer communicating about dropping them off to avoid any penalties, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“Migrants are no longer being dropped off at the city’s landing zone on buses from the southern border, causing people to wander with no direction looking for shelter,” the newspaper reported, citing an aide to the mayor.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

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