A top official in the Chicago mayor’s office rescinded a prediction that the city could see up to 25,000 migrants bused in from Texas for next week’s Democratic National Convention, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.

The city’s migrant czar, Deputy Mayor Beatriz Ponce de Leon, sounded the alarm in late July that Chicago could get inundated with 20,000-25,000 migrants despite zero migrant buses arriving since June 17, a city spokesperson said.

“We at this point do not have any credible intel that there will be a large surge in terms of buses coming from Texas,” Ponce de Leon told the Tribune.

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