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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.

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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

You know this is going to back fire on Texas, states might require permits or taxes to travel to and from a state.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

They can't. several supreme court cases already give aeright to travel. Immigration belongs to the federal government

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Somebody should explain that to all the Texas towns trying to ban traveling out of state for an abortion.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I don’t think those are gonna work either.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Just put toll booths in at the border to Illinois from all directions. It's almost impossible to travel across the u.s. without going through Illinois or going way out of your way to avoid it.

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've been all over the US and pretty sure I've never been in or through Illinois with exception to flights. I think you're greatly overestimating the size of Illinois and underestimating available options of US driving travel.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago

If you want to go around you'll have to drive through Kentucky or through the Michigan UP Mackinaw bridge or through Canada. There's a lot of freight that goes through Illinois as well as coming in/going out from ORD.

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Tons of freight moves along i40 as well. It never approaches Illinois. You might be familiar with the traversal lanes up there, but there are several main thoroughfares south of there. 40, 20 and 10 all have tons of e/w traffic. All are south of Illinois. It's not that hard to avoid one medium sized state.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

That would be pretty unconstitutional.

[-] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure whether that would be a feasible solution. The undocumented part of "undocumented immgrant" is a result of immigrants bypassing a similar system when entering the country.

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Hey let's find a solution to our broken immigration system"

Texas: "nope send dem to dem LiBeRaLs"

"Wow Texas youre so smart, you're totally not trafficking people like the cartels"

They should just secede and become a desert version of North korea.

Edit:corrected

[-] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

They should just succeed and become a desert version of North korea.

Do you mean secede?

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago
[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Wish a texas would

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago
[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

You know this is going to back fire on Texas, states might require permits or taxes to travel to and from a state.

I'm just waiting for the /s

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Ha-ha.

As I understand it, this is a suggestion that it would be okay for states to take blatantly unconstitutional action in retribution for the likely criminal acts of the Texas state government. I’m hoping that I’m wrong, because that’s nuts.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

blatantly unconstitutional action

In this economy? Surely no one would do that, lest they face the consequences.

Consequences.

Consequences... why does that word seem so strange now?

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Consequences... why does that word seem so strange now?

We are most certainly like-minded in that regard.

If unconstitutional action is something that Democrats and Republicans see as necessary, authoritarianism has won, and everyone/everything else has lost.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Meh, it's a comment from an anonymous rando on the Internet. I'm a lot more concerned with the fact that the state of Texas is in the human trafficking business than OP's comment.

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