(The Center Square) – While Gov. J.B. Pritzker contends southern states are creating chaos by sending non-citizen migrants to Illinois, a Republican state senator says Pritzker is “gaslighting” taxpayers.
Pritzker was asked Monday about the ongoing migrant crisis. He said the problem is leaders in Texas sending migrants to the state unannounced.
“Why do they do that? Because they want to cause chaos,” Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference. “We have managed to reign it in so that it’s not chaos.”
State Sen. Jason Plummer, R-Edwardsville, responded Wednesday, saying the state’s policies of not enforcing federal immigration law, offering taxpayer subsidized “Cadillac” health care and other services make Illinois the largest magnet for non-citizen migrants in the country.
“Why are they in places like this? Because we’ve invited them,” Plummer told The Center Square. “To pretend that there’s any rhyme or reason or structure or organization is the governor just once
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