Over the last week, more migrants have continued to arrive at the Salvation Army and other shelters in Chicago after being bused from Texas as part of an initiative from Gov. It's total arrogance for the state to assume they can send migrants to the suburbs around Chicago,' the Republican also said of the humanitarian crisis on the Texas-Mexico border. 'The border situation on the southern border is a totally different situation than Afghan refugees. The Hampton Inn, which was previously used to host refugees from Afghanistan, 'does not give carte blanche to the governor or the mayor to send a couple of bus loads of migrants to our village without telling us,' Grasso angrily expressed. Why are they sending them out to the Republican suburbs? You have to wonder,' Grasso said in a further dig at Lightfoot.Ī representative of the Burr Ridge Village Hall told NBC5 that the 64 migrants were sent to the hotel after being originally housed at the Salvation Army Shield of Hope in Chicago. 'This is hundreds of people in a city of millions. 'We're more than happy for people to find freedom, it is hypocrisy by the mayor of Chicago to complain about the governor of Texas – I do agree with what he's doing – the city of Chicago says it's going to be a sanctuary city which I oppose – but there must be vacant hotel rooms in Chicago,' the mayor of Burr Ridge stressed. Grasso added that no unaccompanied minors were among the 64 newcomers who were checked by the Chicago Health Department. The Greater Chicago Food Depository dropped off plates of flood at the hotel on Thursday for the legal refugees. 'This isn't about them, the migrants are fine, they're being used as political pawns by the governor and mayor,' he added. 'As is my understanding, this hotel, about a year ago, when refugees came in from Afghanistan, apparently accepted several either through faith-based or charitable organizations, but now the state assumes they can just send migrants…,' Grasso told Fox 32. Most of the migrants, who are refugees, come from South American countries, including Peru and Colombia. He said: 'We are very unhappy that nobody from the city, from the state called and told me' Pritzker for using the migrants as 'political pawns.' Republican Mayor of Burr Ridge, Gary Grasso, directed his anger at Lightfoot and Illinois Governor J.B. Hours later, 64 of them were taken to a Hampton Inn hotel in Burr Ridge - 20 miles southwest from downtown - where they will be housed for at least the next 30 days. On Wednesday, 147 migrants were arrived in Chicago, city officials told Fox 32. Kelly noted that the incident came just one day after a combative exchange at a separate press conference where he grilled Lightfoot about her "taxpayer-funded business trip" to Paris "with your donors" as crime continues to plague Chicago.Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sparked outrage after deciding to move 64 migrants on a bussed to the Windy City to a neighboring Republican suburb. In a copy of an August 8 letter obtained by Fox News Digital, CPD Superintendent Brown told Kelly his press credentials were revoked "as a result of actions which occurred on July 19, 2022." Attached to the letter was a "Case Incident Report" filed with the CPD accusing Kelly of "aggravated battery to a police officer" and that he "on two occasions deliberately bumped by pushing his upper body into the upper left arm of" one of the security guards, "thus causing him to receive a battery." Kelly filed a lawsuit against Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot after his press credentials were revoked last month. including equal treatment by their government, and due process, which requires fair notice and consideration before the government may revoke access," the suit asserts.Ĭhicago reporter William J. The Fourteenth Amendment also guarantees citizens due process and equal protection of the laws. The First Amendment guarantees the freedoms of speech and of the press, and those rights are incorporated against the states. A public official may not target particular news media organizations or journalists for exclusion from access made generally available to other media. In fact the entire episode where this bump was falsely alleged to have taken place was videotaped by Kelly and this video shows no such bump took place."
Brown then used this false report as a pretext to revoke Kelly’s press credentials on August 8, 2022. Kelly alleged that upon Lightfoot's instruction, Brown "directed a police officer assigned to Lightfoot’s seventy officer strong security force to fabricate a report that Kelly had bumped into him on July 19, 2022. Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a science initiative event at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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