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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration begins filing lawsuits against operators of ‘rogue buses’ of migrants

A group of migrants exit a bus after traveling from Texas in Chicago's West Loop on Dec. 5, 2023, in Chicago.

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has quietly begun filing lawsuits over what it has described as “rogue buses” transporting migrants, an escalation the mayor has coupled with an attempt to further crack down on the transportation companies.

The stepped-up enforcement is the Johnson administration’s latest effort to address the influx of new arrivals, which has become one of the mayor’s

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