Brandon Johnson has blasted Greg Abbott for flying migrants to the Windy City - despite previously painting it as a haven for the undocumented

The ultra progressive Democratic mayor laid into the Texas Governor for being 'determined to continue to sow seeds of chaos' by sending them his way.

He also tried to pass off the city's spiraling migrant crisis as Abbott's fault for a lack of coordination in the moving of them.

It comes just months after he claimed on the campaign trial in March that Chicago would have no migrant problem if he was elected.

'Chicago must lead with and live by the promise to be a sanctuary city. Longtime Chicagoans don't have to lose for new arrivals to gain - there's enough space at the table for all of us to sit and eat. Immigrants are welcome here,' he wrote on March 10.

One user on X wrote after the post resurfaced: 'This tweet didn't age well did it? Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson better buy a bigger table if he's still planning on feeding all those migrants.'

On Sunday in front of CBS' Face the Nation, Johnson continued to complain about the havoc he said Abbott had caused him, calling the governor 'afraid and mad'.

'What we have said repeatedly is that we need Congress to act to provide the resources that are needed in order to carry out this mission,' Johnson said.

'But what we can't have is a governor in the state of Texas, acting the way he is acting and quite frankly, the rogue buses that are being dropped off across this country in the middle of the night, leaving people with no real support at all, no coordination with the local municipalities.'

He then accused Abbott of dividing Americans against one another over the crisis.

'That type of chaos, it's certainly dividing our country, and we need better coordination between all levels of government to be able to respond to this mission.'

'This is certainly a matter of, not just of our national security, but it's the type of chaos that this governor is committed to administering,' Johnson added.

Renae Eze, a spokesman for Abbott, called out Johnson and Denver Mayor Mike Johnson - who appeared with him in the interview - over their hypocrisy.  

'They are now going to extreme lengths to avoid fulfilling their self-declared sanctuary city promises, yet they remain silent as President Biden transports migrants all around the country and oftentimes in the cover of night,' Eze said.

'Instead of attacking Texas' efforts to provide relief to our overwhelmed border communities, these Democrat mayors should call on their party leader to finally do his job and secure the border – something he continues refusing to do.'

Chicago has spent $138 million on the crisis that is only expected to get worse as temperatures drop as winter goes on.

Earlier Sunday on CNN, Johnson said about 15,000 asylum seekers were crammed into 27 shelters across the city after being bused in from the US-Mexico border, particularly Texas.

Abbott has sent more than 25,300 migrants to Chicago since August 2022, on buses and more recently on charter flights.

About 10,000 migrants are crossing the border every day and many of them are sent to 'sanctuary cities' like Chicago, New York, and Denver.

Johnson said he appreciated the federal government handing out work permits to get immigrants into jobs so they could support themselves.

But he warned: 'Without significant investment from our federal government, it won't just be the city of Chicago that won't be able to maintain this mission.  'It's the entire country that is now at stake.'

He shot another barb at Joe Biden by calling for 'real, substantive immigration reform and policies that allow us to have a structure and a pathway to citizenship'.

The mayor claimed since he was elected seven months ago, poor coordination between federal, state, and local government had made the crisis worse.

'What I've worked to do instead of having chaos is provide some structure and calm around this situation and without significant federal support. This is not sustainable,' he said.

'We're talking about individuals who have suffered miles, thousands of miles of treachery, quite frankly, to get to the border.

'And so what we've seen... is that lack of coordination has caused tremendous stress.'

An example included Abbott loading as many immigrants on to buses as he could and sending them to Illinois with no warning.

Chicago tried to have them arrive at designated locations during business hours and impounding buses that didn't follow these rules.

However, bus companies responded by dropping off migrants as far as 60 miles from Chicago, and Abbott started sending them on charter flights.

Texas spent $86.1 million so far sending migrants to 'sanctuary cities' around the country, about $1,650 per person.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12920511/Brandon-Johnson-Chicago-migrant-crisis-greg-abbott-hypocrisy.html

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