Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago has requested assistance from the federal government to help with the migrant crisis that has deeply impacted the Windy City and other urban cities.

Johnson, Mayor Eric Adams of New York, and Mayor Mike Johnston of Denver joined forces to bring attention to how the migrants who have arrived in their cities are causing a tremendous strain on their cities' resources.

In Chicago alone, there are currently “15,000 people living in temporary shelters.”

“We have reached a critical point in this mission absent real, significant intervention immediately,” Johnson argued. “Without real, significant investment from our federal government, it won’t just be the city of Chicago that won’t be able to maintain this mission. It’s the entire country that is now at stake.”

Adams noted that New York City has taken in more than 161,000 migrants since last year including 4,000  last week.

“We cannot allow buses with people needing our help to arrive without warning at any hour of day and night,” Adams added. “This not only prevents us from providing assistance in an orderly way, it puts those who have already suffered in so much in danger.”

“It will crush city budgets around the country,” said Denver Mayor Mike Johnston.

Since last year, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has implemented a plan to transport more than 80,000 migrants from Texas and other states to Democratic-led cities. Most recently, his administration had chartered planes with migrants to transport them out of the “Lone Star State.”

Johnson was also highly critical of Abbott’s tactics, which he described as “reckless.”

“What Governor Abbott is doing is, quite frankly, it’s reckless,” the mayor said. “… We recognize that there are challenges, significant challenges at the border, and we do need real substantive immigration reform and policies that allow us to have a structure and a pathway to citizenship.

“But again, sending buses all over the state of Illinois and all over the country is reckless and, quite frankly, is dangerous,” he added.

To combat the crisis, each mayor had adopted policies that hit “rogue” buses with lawsuits, fines, and tickets for dropping off migrants outside of scheduled times and days.

Johnson also asked the Biden administration to earmark $15 billion to address the crisis.

In October, Biden requested $13.6 billion for border security "as part of a $106 billion supplemental aid package he unveiled in October that also included assistance for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.'