Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson invoked the Confederacy on Sunday when complaining about Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott sending migrants to the Windy City.
Migrants who are transported to Chicago do not get the same health services as they would at the border, Johnson said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” though he acknowledged the process at the U.S.-Mexico divide is “absolutely raggedy and reckless.”
“But we cannot have a governor who decides that he’s going to cling to the vestiges of [Confederate President] Jefferson Davis, when we should be pulling to the hopes and aspirations that were left by [black abolitionist] Frederick Douglass,” said Johnson. “We have to have a coordinated response to this humanitarian crisis. We cannot allow chaos to dictate and to divide this country.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) on Gov. @GregAbbott_TX sending…
