Ahead of August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration this week revealed it’s opening two new shelters to house up to 1,700 migrants, though the governor’s office sought to downplay the timing.
Officials have long raised concerns that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas might try to sow discord during the DNC by sending a new wave of migrant buses from the southern border. But a Pritzker spokeswoman said the new shelters had been in the works “for some time.”
Imagine that.
