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JB Pritzker: “We ended up with 50 plus thousand [migrants] being sent to…”

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The Resistance Blueprint | Gov. JB Pritzker

Published | Video Starts at 03:13

And then right into the COVID crisis and then right into the migrant crisis. Right, I forgot. That's right. I forgot because the Texas governor was, it was, it was sending tens of thousands and We ended up with 50 plus thousand [migrants] being sent to Chicago. And frankly, some cities that received them from Texas put them right back on a bus and tried to send them to Chicago from their cities. They shall remain nameless for the moment. (03:13–03:18)

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