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The topic of illegal immigration and the political response to it is once again in the news. It was just last month that we reported that many Republicans were working to introduce legislation to remove Vice President Kamala Harris as the “border czar”.
This was legislation introduced by Texas Republican Ronny Jackson that received no less than 36 co-sponsors. In fact, earlier this month, we reported that Arizona Governor Doug Ducey overruled an executive order directed by Biden and Harris that demanded the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to immediately fill in the gaps in the Yuma border wall.
So, the issue of illegal immigration and the fighting has caused between parties is by no means settled.
It is now being reported that:
The city Democrat-led city government of El Paso shamed Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden by joining fed up Republicans in Texas in sending a bus full of migrants to New York City.
Leaders of the border city chartered a bus to send 35 Venezuelan migrants to New York City this week as the Dem Party is slamming Texas Governor Greg Abbott for doing the same thing.
“It’s a journey that we never expected to experience,” Roxeli, a Venezuelan migrant, said. “It was a rough environment. We had to cross oceans, rivers, jungles, countries where perhaps we weren’t welcome.
For a better future for our children, we’re capable of getting anywhere.”
“OEM has sponsored and provided transportation services for migrants out of El Paso, which is reimbursable through the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino said about the El Paso City-County Office of Emergency Management
“OEM has sponsored charter buses to include a recent transport to New York City, this was the preferred destination for those without any means to travel.”
It was further reported by The Texas Tribune that:
Migrants who are released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — often because they have shown a credible fear of persecution in their home countries — are given hearing dates in immigration courts near their preferred destinations.
In El Paso, migrants released by ICE typically go to shelters in the Annunciation House network, where they stay two to three days while they arrange travel to reunite with family across the country.
Some migrants who can’t arrange transportation wind up unhoused in El Paso and other border cities because migrant shelters can’t provide shelter for more than a few days.
Unlike migrants from other countries, those from Venezuela often lack sponsor families in the United States ready to provide them with housing or assist with travel, Garcia of Annunciation House said.
That was the case with the group from El Paso this week.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been a thorn in the sides of many Democratic politicians for a long time, but especially, of late. For instance, we reported earlier this month that Eric Adam, the mayor of New York City, had to ask for help from the federal government in dealing with this migrant issue.
Further, the same issue actually happened with Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser after she complained about illegal aliens inundating her city. Bowser said the migrant situation was dire and would overwhelm her city, taking resources from her constituents that they were not prepared to also extend to migrants.
