llinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday fired off a letter to President Joe Biden about an "untenable" migrant crisis in the state, calling for an overhaul to the system and blasting the White House for a "lack of intervention and coordination at the border."
Pritzker, a Democrat, said the state's resources were beyond strained after Texas officials bused more than 15,000 migrants to Illinois in the past year.
"Unfortunately, the welcome and aid Illinois has been providing to these asylum seekers has not been matched with support by the federal government," Pritzker wrote. "Most critically, the federal government's lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for Illinois."
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The administration has given the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois more than $46 million in grant funding to support recently arrived migrants, according to the White House.
"President Biden has repeatedly called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform since his first day in office. Without the help of Congress, the Administration has been taking action: since May 12, we have removed or returned over a quarter million individuals," White House spokesperson Angelo Fernández Hernández said in a statement.
The Democrats' only solution to unimpeded mass illegal immigration is to make it legal, turning it into unimpeded mass legal immigration. Presto! All fixed!
Fernández Hernández added that the administration has moved to accelerate processing of work permits. "We will continue to work closely with Illinois and states and cities across the country," he added.
Fueling the letter is what Pritzker described as a "humanitarian crisis" that strains adequate housing for people who are taking refuge in police stations and even on sidewalks, as well as medical help and other social services, he wrote.
Pritzker then argued that it's not fair for Texas to send its illegals to the sanctuary city of Chicago -- Texas must be forced to keep the illegal aliens that blue cities vote to let into the country!
[P]ritzker went further, asking that the federal government intervene by helping manage where migrants end up.
"Allowing just one state to lay the burden upon a certain few states run by Democrats is untenable," Pritzker wrote. "We are a nation that has welcomed immigrants and refugees since our founding, and we have done so in a bipartisan manner. It cannot be that just a few cities and states should now bear the cost of this effort alone."