Forced Relocation of Migrants
Cruelty with compound interest.
JAMES JOYNER · SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2024 · 2 COMMENTS
A collaborative NYT report, “Bus by Bus, Texas’ Governor Changed Migration Across the U.S.,” demonstrates a huge pitfall of the standard way in which news is reported.
The autumn of 2021 delivered a shock to the state of Texas. More than 9,000 migrants crossed the border on a September day into the town of Del Rio and huddled in a tent camp under a bridge. Thousands more came later that week from countries all over the world, challenging the town’s ability to handle them.
The following spring, Texas opened a new frontier of its own. On April 13, a bus pulled into Union Station in Washington, D.C., carrying 24 migrants who had been offered a free ride from Del Rio, chartered by the state’s Division of Emergency Management. More buses arrived in the capital over the next several days.
Washington’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, suggested that many of the migrants had been “tricked” into riding the buses by the Texas governor, Greg Abbott. The White House called it a “political stunt.”
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/forced-relocation-of-migrants/
