Afternoon Briefing: Pritzker slams Texas governor
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As more buses of migrants continue to arrive in Chicago from Texas, officials are sounding the alarm and bringing in the National Guard.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker is signing a disaster proclamation to secure resources for the asylum-seekers and has deployed 75 National Guard members to assist with logistics.
“I’m not going to mince words here: The governor of Texas is forcing on New York and (Washington) D.C. and Chicago and potentially other places a needlessly last minute and complex process that is a heartless display of politics over people,” Pritzker said.
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