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    Illinois governor signing disaster declaration, calls up National Guard to assist with migrants bused from Texas

    by Alice Yin and Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune Sep 14, 2022 4 minutes
    A young migrant who traveled from Texas to Union Station in Chicago waves as his family waits to depart to temporary housing on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022.

    CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is signing a disaster proclamation to secure resources for the asylum-seekers bused to Illinois from Texas and has deployed 75 National Guard members to assist with the logistics of receiving the migrants, he announced Wednesday.

    Speaking at a news conference, Pritzker again criticized his Texas counterpart, Greg Abbott, for failing to coordinate or communicate with Illinois and Chicago officials and derided his actions as a “stunt.”

    ”I’m not going to mince words here: The governor of Texas is forcing on New York and (Washington) D.C. and Chicago and potentially other places a needlessly last-minute and complex process

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