After Chicago Mayor Lightfoot chastised Texas Gov. Abbott for sending migrants to Chicago, she then sent several dozen to a suburb without warning:
If the implication here is that Lightfoot (and the political left by extension) is a hypocrite this is a blatant false equivalence.
The criticism of Abbot is that he was sending these migrants without making any prior arrangements with anyone. He was essentially just dumping them and letting the cities figure out what to do with them after they arrived.
The Burr Ridge Mayor found out that migrants were there because he started receiving phone calls and emails informing him that they were staying in a local hotel. In other words, people decided to complain to the mayor because they looked outside and started seeing brown people.
It’s not just that these are different scenarios as Lightfoot actually took care of their well being herself by working with local businesses to ensure they had a place to stay, but worse is the reason why this is being done in the first place. It’s not the bus or the destination that makes this egregious. It’s the intentional use of human beings as political pawns in order to target areas of the country you see as your political opposition that makes this what it is.
These two examples are not the same.
