A Chicago city official has walked back an earlier claim that the city was bracing for potentially tens of thousands of migrants to be bused in from the Texas border during the Democratic National Convention.
“We at this point do not have any credible intel that there will be a large surge in terms of buses coming from Texas,” Chicago’s deputy mayor for immigration, Beatriz Ponce de Leon, told the Chicago Tribune in a report published Thursday.
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