Virtue Signaling Mayor of a Northern Sanctuary City Blues

"Lightfoot announced the launch of a donation page for the migrants in response to the arrivals. The page asks for necessities like clothes, shoes, diapers and blankets. It also asks that willing participants sign up to be a volunteer and to help with donations."

"We have people coming as families, young children with their first taste of democracy and freedom in many instances and we need to make sure that the memory that they have of Chicago and of the United States is favorable," Lightfoot said. "Regardless of where their life journey takes them, I want them to feel like in this moment that they came to this city, and we wrapped our arms around them, loved them and supported them."

                                            definitely not the Democrat Party that your Grandpa was familiar with....

Lori Lightfoot now gets to deal with what border towns around Texas and other cities in the South have been dealing with for decades.  Liberal Democrats in northern cities have been yapping for years bemoaning mistreatment of the poor immigrants at the hands of Border Patrol and southern Republicans.  Now, they get to put up or shut up.  

The irony is not lost on me.  After the War of Northern Aggression and Reconstruction, southern Democrats realized that they were not able to win a ground war against the more industrialized North but they could create an atmosphere and culture in the South that was separate from the North and to their own liking.  That culture endured until the 1960's.  It ended as the Federal Government stepped in and rammed a new way of life down the throats of Southern whites.

During the first half of the 20th century, Northerners experienced a massive wave of Southern Negroes flowing into their own cities (Chicago in particular).  The Land of Abe Lincoln, ultra-Republican of the times, found itself playing host to a multitude of the recently emancipated.  They, like the wave of humanity now coming from Latin America, were seeking a better life.  Southern Negros (who, by the way, were citizens of the country - key difference from the illegal aliens coming into Texas today) were met by Northerners who were not always welcoming and inviting.  Some of the worst race riots in the history of the country took place in Northern and Western cities.  I should think that the attitude of Southern white Democrats at that time was, "You love 'em so much, you live next to 'em".  Northerners had been willing to fight in a civil war to liberate the Negro so long as the Negro remained in the South and away from Northern cities, it would seem.  Just across the river in E. St. Louis, IL, a very large number of Negros were killed by rampaging whites during the turn of the last century.  True story, look it up.  The Illinois whites involved were removed from the Civil War (or War of Northern Aggression) by only one generation at that time.

Now, Southern Republicans are doing the same to Northern Democrats.  Lori Lightfoot, a lesbian "person of color" and proud Democrat, has the logistical challenge of dealing with illegal immigration into her own city.  Her response thus far is to put up the equivalent of a "Go Fund Me" page.  This should work out swimmingly for the immigrants and the City of Chicago /s.