Editorial: We should welcome asylum-seekers as future taxpayers
Although the death of Jismary Alejandra Barboza González on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas remains under investigation, it sounds like the sort of avoidable tragedy that many feared could result from the toxic politics that put her family on that bus.
Little Jismary, who would have turned 4 this week, died Aug. 10 on a bus chartered as part of the political protest stunt that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched last year to send migrants crossing into Texas on to Democratic-led cities like Chicago.
An Illinois Department, a partially state-funded program to help asylum-seekers, will pay her burial costs.
