Democrat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot stated that she'd be "joyful to drain Texas of all its citizens" and welcome them to Chicago following Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent two buses with migrants onboard to Chicago's Union Station.

Lightfoot created the opinions throughout a Thursday push conference immediately after the migrants' arrival.

"I'm content to get and drain Texas, of all of its residents," Lightfoot explained. "I would not want to dwell in a state with a governor like that. I unquestionably would not want to stay in a point out exactly where they are doing all the things they can to strip persons of their fundamental legal rights. And let us not ignore about what they've accomplished to females and others who had been trying to find reproductive well being treatment."

Lightfoot added that she welcomes "Texans to Chicago" and said that "we will lease the buses up coming time to bring them in this article."

CHICAGO MAYOR LORI LIGHTFOOT SLAMS TEXAS GOV. ABBOTT AS A 'MAN Without having ANY MORALS' After SENDING MIGRANT BUSES

Mayor Lori Lightfoot introduces Jazmine Sullivan through 2022 Lollapalooza working day one at Grant Park on July 28, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Visuals)

Even so, details show that persons residing in Illinois are shifting away towards states like Texas.

In accordance to Forbes, citing USPS adjust-of-tackle data, Illinois ranks No. 3 for states the place citizens are leaving, and Texas ranks No. 1 for exactly where men and women are going to.

Abbott sent two buses from Texas to Chicago on Wednesday, which arrived at Union Station at 7:30 p.m., carrying migrants who illegally crossed the southern border.

The mayor states that 75 migrants were being on the two buses and extra that many of them ended up from Venezuela.

In a assertion just after the buses' arrival on Wednesday, Abbott stated that Chicago is being additional as a "drop-off spot" for potential migrant buses in response to "President Biden's open up border insurance policies too much to handle border communities in Texas," joining the present destinations of New York City and Washington, D.C.

Lightfoot harshly criticized Abbott on Thursday, stating he is a "man with out any morals"

TEXAS SENDS BUSES OF MIGRANTS TO CHICAGO FOR Very first TIME, DROPPED OFF AT Teach STATION

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas. (WHD Photo/Eric Homosexual, File)

 "Permit me say loud and very clear to Greg Abbott and his enablers in Texas with these continued political stunts, Gov. Abbott has confirmed what regrettably quite a few of us had recognised by now, that he is a person with out any morals, humanity or disgrace," Lightfoot claimed.

She also explained that it is "my prayer" that Abbott "finds some humanity" and will not continue to send out buses of migrants to Chicago, but explained if he does, "we are prepared."

Abbott's place of work responded to her statements, stating that Lightfoot is getting an "absolute hypocrite."

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Migrants arrive in Chicago from Texas (WHD News)

"In which was her outrage and condemnation of President Biden as he flew planeloads of migrants throughout the place and dropped them in communities in the go over of night time? Mayor Lightfoot knows nothing about Texas' busing approach and needs to halt with the baseless lies and fearmongering. Texas continues stepping up and responding to the Biden-created border crisis, having unparalleled action to address the historic levels of unlawful immigrants, terrorists, and lethal medications like fentanyl that are surging into our communities and frustrating border towns," Abbott's push secretary Renea Eze explained.

"If the mayor needs a answer to this humanitarian disaster, she need to halt complaining and get in touch with on President Biden to just take rapid action to protected the border—something the President continues failing to do," Eze additional.

WHD News' Timothy Nerozzi, Emma Colton, Liz Friden, Grady Trimble, Paul Greatest, and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.