Texas flew more than 120 illegal migrants up to Chicago this week, the first time Texas has sent a plane full of migrants to the city.
The flight left from the border city of El Paso and arrived at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday.
The plane was chartered by the Texas Department of Emergency Management, a Chicago city spokesperson said Wednesday.
After the flight landed, airport police got a call about the migrants shortly after 7 p.m., the city spokesperson said. Two people on the flight took an Uber away from the area before police could get there.
Chicago has been scrambling to respond to a migrant crisis for months now.
More than 26,000 migrants have arrived in the country’s third-largest city since last year. Nearly 1,200 migrants are still camping out at O’Hare Airport and various police stations.
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