Suburbs Put the Brakes on Migrant Bus Arrivals After Crackdowns in Chicago and New York

Suburbs Put the Brakes on Migrant Bus Arrivals After Crackdowns in Chicago and New York
Illegal immigrants board a bus as they arrived on a plane from San Antonio at Chicago Rockford International Airport in Rockford, Ill., on Jan. 1, 2024. WTVO NewsNation via AP
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TRENTON, N.J.—In Edison, New Jersey, the mayor warned he would send people back to the border if they came to his city in buses. In Rockford, Illinois, authorities said 355 illegal immigrants who landed on a charter flight wouldn’t be staying.

“NO MIGRANT BUSES THIS EXIT,” signs along Interstate 55 in Grundy County, Illinois, southwest of Chicago said ahead of Christmas weekend.