Back in April, Texas's Republican governor, Greg Abbott, pledged to bus migrants who had entered Texas illegally to Washington, D.C. on a voluntary basis.
It was laughed at in the press and among Democrats as a "publicity stunt" at the time. But the governor was dead serious, and kept that promise. Leadership is contagious, and Abbott was soon joined by Arizona's Gov. Douglas Ducey.
For months, the states of Texas and Arizona have been sending charter buses of illegal border crossers being let in by Joe Biden's open borders policy to Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, near the Capitol building and now to New York City, led by Mayor Eric Adams, who loudly proclaims his city a sanctuary city, with laws on the books saying the city is required to provide housing to all comers.
Abbott's office says that over 6,100 migrants have been bussed to D.C. so far.
Abbott expanded his operation by transporting migrants to the Big Apple, which he said like Washington, D.C. is an “ideal destination” due to the city’s generous treatment of homeless people.
However, officials based in D.C. or NYC, despite their claims of compassion aren’t exactly giving the migrants the red carpet treatment.
NPR reports that when the migrants disembark, they find neither the local nor federal government there to meet them.
Even Joe Biden’s White House which is responsible for the border crisis, isn’t exactly welcoming their new guests.
Speaking to reporters, Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, slammed Gov. Abbott for sending immigrants to NYC and DC, calling it “another stunt of bussing desperate migrants across the country and he’s using them as a political ploy.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/gov_abbotts_idea_to_bus_illegal_migrants_from_texas_to_nyc_and_dc_is_getting_their_attention.html
