BREAKING NEWS – Springfield, Illinois – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop sending migrants to Chicago due to incoming winter storms, an appeal that drew pushback from the Lone Star State.
“While action is pending at the federal level, I plead with you for mercy for the thousands of people who are powerless to speak for themselves,” Pritzker said in a letter, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “Please, while winter is threatening vulnerable people’s lives, suspend your transports and do not send more people to our state.”
A leaked voicemail left to Abbott from Prtizker, has now been made public. “I pray to you, Almighty Abbott, that you will not hold my previous words against me, that display my hypocrisy on immigration. When I previously called Illinois ‘the most welcoming state in the nation’, it was a political stunt that I deeply regret. I humbly ask that you forgive me, as I kneel while I’m speaking… uh… Amen.”