OPINION:
Lori Lightfoot, the Second Amendment hating Democrat mayor of sanctuary city Chicago who just lost her bid for reelection, sent a letter to Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pleading with him to stop sending illegals her way.
Typical Democrat. What’s good for me is certainly not good for thee.
Lightfoot lives in an armed security bubble, well protected by a tax-paid team from the crimes and passions of the thug and oft-illegal element that roams Chicago streets — the well-armed, illegally armed, oft-illegally present element that makes Chicago such a bloody, murder-ridden, gang-roving violent city. She doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of her leftist actions. She doesn’t have to face the realities of her sanctuary policies, her anti-Second Amendment pushes, her coddling of criminals and scorning of law and order. She’s protected. She’s safe. She’s good.
Between January and the end of February, Chicago police counted 79 homicides in the city.
And just this week, from Breitbart: “At least 15 shot Friday into Sunday morning in Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago.”
In other words: Lightfoot may be safe. As for the rest of Chicago-ans? Eh. Oh well. Deal with it.
It’s the attitude that permeates the Democrat Party on all-things-border-control. Democrats are quite OK with letting in illegals, opening borders wide, allowing illegals to disappear into the nation without nary a background check. But when Republicans, frustrated and angry at the ensuring violence in their respective city and community streets, fight back by shipping illegals to the areas where the Democrat enablers live — that’s when Democrats get up in arms.
That’s when Democrats all of a sudden want borders.
“Since August 31, the city of Chicago has received more than 360 migrants sent here from the southern border by Texas Governor Greg Abbott,” ABC 7 wrote in September.
Between then and now, Lightfoot estimates the city has served up to 8,000 more.
Oh boo hoo. Compare that to the tens of thousands Democrats have allowed via their open border policies into America, into parts unknown, all since Joe Biden took over the presidency.
It’s only when Democrats suffer that they start to see the suffering they’ve caused. But they’re hypocrites to the end.
Lightfoot wrote this to Abbott, in response to his plan to ship more border crossers to Chicago this week, The Hill reported: “Chicago is a Welcoming City … but your lack of consideration or coordination in an attempt to cause chaos and score political points has resulted in a critical tipping point in our ability to receive individuals and families in a safe, orderly and dignified way.”
Chicago doesn’t have the resources to serve these people, Lightfoot said.
Chicago doesn’t have the ability to provide for these people, Lightfoot said.
Texas is being cruel, cruel, cruel to these people by putting them in positions where they can’t be adequately served, Lightfoot said.
“I know by your actions that you either do not see or do not care about the trauma these migrants have already faced and continue to suffer under the humanitarian crisis you have created. But I beseech you anyway: treat these individuals with the respect and dignity that they deserve,” Lightfoot said.
Sending these people here would be “inhumane and dangerous,” Lightfoot said.
This is so rich.
Dear Joe Biden: What Lightfoot said — only about America’s entire southern border.
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