3-Year-Old Dies En Route to Chicago Under Abbott’s Anti-Migrant Bussing Program

The child’s is the latest in a series of migrant deaths critics have attributed to the governor’s Operation Lone Star.

United Farm Workers president Teresa Romera in response to the child’s death. “This should tell you exactly how little Gov. Abbott values human life. Absolutely despicable.”on social media Friday evening that “I’m saddened and horrified but not surprised by a child’s death on a Texas-sponsored bus to Chicago. Operation Lone Star has trafficked asylum-seekers across the country in squalid conditions for months. Gov. Greg Abbott’s barbaric practices are killing people.

The busloads have contributed to a humanitarian crisis as the thousands of newly arrived people stretch city resources. Migrants have filled police station lobbies and large shelters across Chicago. Nearly 6,000 migrants resided in city-run temporary shelters at the start of August, while about 1,000 awaited placement.

The governor’s Operation Lone Star includes a buoy barrier installed in the Rio Grande — which in July the U.S. Department of Justice to sue Abbott and Texas. The suit says that “this floating barrier poses threats to navigation and public safety and presents humanitarian concerns” and cites “diplomatic protests by Mexico.”

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