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A few months ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened to bus migrants who illegally crossed the border to Washington D.C.
He did this as a means to make D.C. and the Biden administration see that they have to get serious about border security.
“Abbott announced last week that he was directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to transport migrants released from federal custody in Texas to the nation’s capital and other locations outside his state,” Fox News reported in April.
“By busing migrants to Washington, D.C., the Biden administration will be able to more immediately meet the needs of the people they are allowing to cross our border,” Abbott said in a statement at the time.
“Texas should not have to bear the burden of the Biden administration’s failure to secure our border,” he added.
The Conservative Brief reported:
Not long after, the first busses from Texas full of illegal aliens began arriving in the nation’s capital.
“The bus pulled up at approximately 8 a.m. local time, blocks away from the U.S. Capitol building. Individuals disembarked one by one except for family units who exited together. They checked in with officials and had wristbands they were wearing cut off before being told they could go,” the report added.
“According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott’s announcement on April 6,” the report continued.
Arizona’s governor, Doug Ducey, followed in Abbott’s footsteps and began bussing migrants to D.C. also.
The White House initially disregarded Abbott’s plan and called it a “publicity stunt”.
However, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is asking for federal assistance in dealing with the onslaught of migrants because they are taking up all available spaces in the city’s homeless shelters.
She went on CBS’ “Face the Nation and spoke with host Margaret Brennan.
Brennan asked, “The Washington Post reported last week that homeless shelters in D.C. were filling up and groups are getting overwhelmed by these buses that the governors of Texas and Arizona are sending here full of migrants. How significant is this influx? How many people?”
“Well, this is a very significant issue,” Bowser responded. “We have, for sure, called on the federal government to work across state lines to prevent people from really being tricked into getting on buses. We think they’re largely asylum seekers who are going to final destinations that are not Washington, D.C.
“I worked with the White House to make sure that FEMA provided a grant to a local organization that is providing services to folks. But I fear that they’re being tricked into nationwide bus trips when their final destinations are places all over the United States of America,” she said.
WooHoo! Good going Texas & Arizona. Now, the other states need to follow suit.