Volunteers who have been providing care packages and assisting migrants off of buses and onto trains at Wilmette’s Metra Station urged the Wilmette Village Board to not follow neighboring com…
Cook County Commissioner Scott Britton speaks before the Wilmette Village Board as it considers enacting a busing ordinance to limit the timeframe buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott can drop off migrants in the village. and assisting migrants off of buses and onto trains at Wilmette’s Metra Station urged the Wilmette Village Board to not follow neighboring communities by adopting a busing ordinance during Wednesday night’s meeting.
Even so, he explained increases in late night and early morning drop-offs have made it difficult for Wilmette police to provide support due to reduced staffing during those times. “This could be anyone’s daughter in our community,” she said. “We cannot let the fabric of our community undergo this level of change without our input or our consent.”
Resident Lee Goodman told the board he spent the past two weeks in Eagle Pass, Texas, on the southern border. He reported seeing a family of six attempting to cross the border but being stopped by barbed wire fencing and eventually turned away by the National Guard. “This is a community that cares. The majority of people in our town I believe have their hearts in the right place,” volunteer Jessica Siegel said. “As we’ve seen in other towns, any ordinance is effectively a ban. The buses are going to stop coming.”
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