Blue on Blue Battle Continues

Prickster "standing up against" Washington DC, probably trying to demonstrate his "outsider" credentials before the DNC drafts him for the big seat:

• With asylum-seekers expected to arrive in Chicago at a rate of 25 busloads a day, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is stepping up criticism of the federal government’s response to the crisis, writing in a letter to President Joe Biden on Monday that Illinois is in an “untenable situation.”

  “Today, Illinois stands mostly unsupported against this enormous strain on our state resources,” Pritzker wrote.

  [...]

  On the call, Pritzker and Johnson warned that Chicago is expected to see 25 buses a day from Texas beginning this week, potentially bringing in 1,250 migrants a day, according to a source with knowledge of the call. The city is receiving about 10 buses a day, with 40 to 50 people on board each.

Wow. Twelve-hundred-fifty a day, while Texas and Arizona are seeing ten thousand and more.

Porky also took a shot at the VP:

• “A single office with an identified leader must be assigned to work for the cities and states across the silos of government to manage the challenges we all face,” Pritzker wrote.

That would be the VP, right? And she's now pulling double duty as the anti-violence czarina or something.

Amazingly, the Tribune actually reports a fact that isn't getting a lot of airplay:

• The governor on Tuesday once again accused Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of attempting to “cause chaos in the places he’s sending asylum-seekers.”

  “The more that people feed into that at the local level, the more likely it is that he will increase the number of buses, and you’re seeing that now,” Pritzker said, neglecting to mention that some of the recent buses arriving in Chicago have been sent by the Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas.

And over at this link, Pilsen is getting squirrelly about the South Americans:

• A new shelter opened in Pilsen Tuesday amid growing backlash from some in the Latino community who feel that immigration reform and the neighborhood’s recent property tax hike has taken a back seat to the migrant crisis.

  Just weeks after a volunteer-run shelter in Pilsen was forced to close because of a lack of funding and volunteer support, the new migrant shelter, now operated by the city, quietly opened in an empty warehouse near Cermak Road and Halsted Street. A security guard paced back and forth in nearby parking lot and a couple of white utility vans backed into the loading dock behind the building.

  News of the shelter was met with mixed reaction from about 150 residents Monday night at a meeting at Benito Juarez Community Academy, where city officials advocated for the shelter as they scramble to house a surging number of migrants arriving from the southern border.

"Mixed reaction" is just the ones who were moved enough to show up and complain. As it gets worse, more will show up.