Missouri attorney general blasts Kansas City mayor’s open invitation to migrants

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey threatened legal action against Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas after the Democratic leader invited migrants from sanctuary cities to live and work in the Midwest state.

In a letter released Thursday, Bailey, a Republican, accused Lucas of offering an “open invitation for illegal aliens to come to Missouri” and claimed Lucas’s comments welcoming workers were “wildly irresponsible.”

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