On Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends off over 120 illegal immigrants from El Paso to Chicago, in line with his policy of transporting “asylum seekers” to Democratic-led cities.
The governor’s office had been sending migrants through buses in Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, and Los Angeles since April 2022. This is in protest of Biden’s open-border policy that has allowed hundreds of thousands of illegals inside the United States.
Since last year, Texas has transported over 80,000 people from border cities to liberal-administered cities. But Tuesday’s flight marks the first time the governor’s office used planes to transport passengers.
“Because Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is failing to live up to his city’s ‘Welcoming city’ ordinance by targeting migrant buses from Texas, we are expanding our operation to include flights to Chicago, like the Biden administration has been doing across the country,” tells Andrew Maheleris, spokesperson for Gov. Abbott.
He further said that the Texas government will continue to take historic action in helping local partners respond to this Biden-made crisis.
Texas governor also challenged Biden to step up and do his job to secure the border.
According to Gov. Abbott, these migrants willingly accepted the transportation and signed a consent waiver.
Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Homeland Security expects surges of migrant crossing as high as 16,000 to 18,000.
However, a former DHS official said that the government can only sustain and control the borders for only a “couple of days at 12,000 encounters.”
“…a sustained flow of 12,000 to 14,000 is what we determined would buckle the system.”
“Ultimately, we knew we were surpassing the capabilities of DHS,” the official said.
According to the DHS, they were able to record more than 9,600 migrant encounters at the US southern border in December.
Fox News, however, reported that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were able to encounter a record high of 12,600 migrants last Monday.
A New York Post article said that many of these migrants walked across the Rio Grande River which serves as the border between the US and Mexico with the intent to seek asylum.
The numbers were so high that Border agents and resources were stretched so thin, that even road and rail crossings were closed to shift all officers to processing the arriving migrants.
According to data from the CBP, those who seek asylum claim to be “fleeing prosecution and failing regimes in South America.” There was also an uptick in those arriving from China, India, Russia, and Africa.
