5 more Chicago suburbs pass migrant bus ordinances
The migrant bus battle in Chicagos suburbs has gone into overdrive.
On Tuesday evening, at least five more suburbs approved restrictive ordinances aimed at curbing unscheduled buses from Texas.
Chicago‘s Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) expected one bus from the southern border on Tuesday, but that did not account for buses that might turn up in surrounding suburbs.
On Tuesday night, Hinsdale, Joliet, North Chicago, Buffalo Grove, and Woodstock held council meetings to address the situation. Council members in all five suburbs unanimously approved their proposed ordinances.
He said those new arrivals were dropped off at the village’s Metra station, where they boarded trains to Ogilvie.
“Hinsdale does not have the resources to handle such situations, even in good weather,” said Cauley. “We were initially told that the inflow of buses to Hinsdale would last for seven days. But we’ve recently been advised by a bus driver, that unless we do something, these buses will keep coming unannounced, at least through March.”
“The ordinance is not a ban on buses, buses will be permitted to come to Hinsdale if they comply with the new ordinance,” said Cauley.
“This doesn’t really have anything to do with sanctuary city laws, or sanctuary laws in general. They really are two entirely different things,” Schwinn said. “If they are going to accept immigrants that have been bused from states like Texas, for example, they want to do it in a kind of orderly way, so they don’t want these buses to come sort of willy-nilly at different times, randomly without notice, dropping people off in cold temperatures without appropriate clothing or medical attention or food, not even knowing if they are in Chicago or not, and then expecting them to find their way to Chicago.”
“You don’t monitor everyone and it’s not the responsibility of state and local officials to monitor everyone, but it could be their responsibility to help provide them services, housing, food, and the like when they come to our area,” said Schwinn.
Chicago has welcomed more than 29,000 new arrivals since August 2022.
