'This is truly a welcoming community for those immigrants and we want them to come to the city of Chicago,' the Chicago mayor-elect said.
Lori Lightfoot hasn’t yet taken the oath to be Chicago’s next mayor, but she’s already embraced the fact the Windy City is a sanctuary city, and she said Chicago will open its arms to immigrants seeking asylum.
“We have people who are routinely coming to this city. We have a whole infrastructure that’s built up to make sure that their rights are protected while the city of Chicago has, under the current administration, provided funding for various groups to help support asylum seekers and other people that are going through the immigration court system. I expect it will continue, if not expand upon, those kinds of resources,” Lightfoot said during a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper on Friday.
"Look, don’t get me wrong. What I’m saying is I don’t think we should take the bait every time the president puts out a provocative tweet. What I think we need to do is make sure that we are being very clear and speaking our values,” Lightfoot said."We are a city that is a sanctuary city. We have immigrants from all over the world who call Chicago their home.
On Friday, the president threatened to bus undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities in an effort to strong-arm Democrats to accept stiffer immigration policies. Sanctuary cities, counties and states have ordinances in place that protect immigrants from immigration and custom officials from detaining them or jailing them for questions.
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