Use Charter Buses to Send Illegal Immigrants to Washington D.C.
By Jim Hoft Published April 6, 2022, at 4:02pm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott will begin to use charter buses to ship illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., as part of his strategy for the overwhelming influx of illegal immigrants.
Governor Abbott held a press conference today concerning Texas’ border security efforts in response to the Biden admin’s decision to drop Title 42 at the border on May 23.
Joe Biden announced that he plans to drop a Trump-era order blocking asylum seekers
at the U.S. border on May 23. Title 42 was used by President Trump in 2020 to expel migrants seeking asylum during the Covid pandemic.
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According to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin, Texas Governor Greg Abbott will begin using up to 900 charter buses to ship illegal immigrants to Washington D.C.
“To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington, DC,” Governor Abbott announced in his press conference.
“We are sending them to the United States Capitol, where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border,” Gov. Abbott continued.
Gov. Abbott also announced to inspect vehicles as they cross the international points of entry into Texas effective immediately as part of his strategy to curtail the flow of drug cartel smuggling, immigrants, and drugs.
“Those two strategies are in addition to announcing the following actions to further
deter illegal immigrants, including deploying boat blockades at appropriate regions in
the Rio Grande River, deploying razor wire at low water crossings in high traffic areas, creating container blockades to drive people away from low water crossings,” Abbott added. “
Additionally, the National Guard will begin its first phase of mass migration rehearsals tomorrow to begin the preparation for what we are anticipating being a potential mass influx of people coming across the border. All troopers and specially trained National Guard will be equipped with riot gear in case of potential caravan violence, like what we have all seen occur in Mexico as the caravans were making their way toward the United States,” Abbott continued. Watch the press briefing below: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
holds a press conference on the state’s border security efforts
I LOVE THIS GOVERNOR!!!
He has more concern for his Texas constituents and the American citizens than
the inept Biden president, and his administration, and democrats in Washington DC.
Sending the illegal crossers to DC. is correct and necessary.
God Bless Governor Abbott and the men and women of “LAW ENFORCEMENT”.
God bless our governor and members of his leadership task force.
I live in Del Rio Texas, and travel on 277 N. to local ranches overseeing property for owners who Do not live here For them. I’m alone and always concerned out in the middle of nowhere of what could possibly happen if I let my guard down. As an American citizen and veteran of the United States Air Force I’m absolutely sick and tired of what this current administration Is doing to our great country and nation.
They took an oath to protect and serve This nation and the American citizen,
they took an oath to uphold the laws and the Constitution of the United States.
Every one of these Democratic Cabinet members in this current administration has failed on every level and broached upon treasonous behavior towards our nation and its citizenry. Instead of sending US troops to Europe they need to be sending them to the border – the main job of the US government is to protect our borders and the people of America.
– CLOSE THE BORDER!!!!!!!
Here are Gov. Greg Abbott’s plans for the Texas border once Title 42 is lifted
by President Biden and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is stepping up his criticism of the Biden administration’s border policies and promises tougher state action to control unauthorized immigration.
Texas will begin putting migrants apprehended at the state’s southern border on charter buses bound for Washington, D.C., once the Biden administration ends the Trump-era policy of expelling asylum seekers next month, Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday.
At a news conference in the border city of Weslaco, Abbott also promised increased military activity among National Guard troops deployed to South Texas that will include putting razor wire in low-water areas of the Rio Grande.
“We are sending them to the United States’ capital, where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border,” Abbott said. Abbott didn’t provide details on how the busing would work or how much it would cost — the nearly 1,800-mile trip from the Rio Grande Valley to Washington takes 26 hours without stopping — but Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said more than 900 buses would be available for the effort.
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In a news release sent two hours after the news conference, the governor’s media relations team said the bus trips would be voluntary for “migrants who have been processed and released from federal custody. “Asked about the latest initiatives’ costs, Abbott said they would require “no additional funding.”
But he defended his border expenditures overall. “Securing the board does not come cheap,” he said. A day earlier, the commander of Texas military forces said Abbott’s border security initiative known as Operation Lone Star was running low on money and that an additional $531 million is needed to maintain operations through August. Abbott said the pace of unauthorized migration is likely to accelerate when the policy known as Title 42 is lifted.
“The federal government is planning for up to 18,000 illegal immigrants crossing per day,” Abbott said. “That’s more than a half a million illegal immigrants crossing the border every single month from more than 150 different countries.
“Flanked by Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw, National Guard Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer and Chief Kidd, Abbott also said troopers will carry out stepped-up inspections of commercial vehicles crossing into Texas from Mexico. Abbott said further initiatives at the border will be announced next week.
Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke, Abbott’s Democratic opponent in the November election, dismissed the governor’s latest move as election-year gimmickry. “If Abbott focused on solutions instead of stunts, then Texas could have made some real progress on this issue over the last seven years,” O’Rourke said in an email.
Laredo lawyer Carlos E. Flores, who is part of the No Border Wall Coalition, also criticize Abbott’s latest initiatives.
“Do the communities along the border need resources and assistance to help with the influx of migrants coming in from Latin America? No question about that,” Flores said. “But the governor’s knee-jerk reaction is to take the strongest-sounding, harshest measure that he can come up with.
“What is Title 42?
The name refers to Title 42 of the U.S. Government Code established July 1, 1944, to give federal authorities the power to deny entry of both people and products into the country to limit the spread of a communicable disease. Then-President Donald Trump invoked Title 42 shortly after the coronavirus outbreak to give the government the power to expel asylum seekers before they were given the opportunity to make a case for staying in the country legally. Before the announcement that the policy would end, President Joe Biden had resisted calls from immigrants’ rights groups to reverse Trump’s move and allow asylum seekers to pursue their claims.
More: Biden administration will rescind Trump-era immigration policy expelling migrants at the border. According to the Department of Homeland Security, more than 1 million individuals have been expelled using Title 42. A political wedge. The two-year-old policy has acted as a wedge between immigration hardliner Republicans like Trump and many, but not all, Democrats.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, called the policy “wrongheaded” and said it was “without basis in public health. “Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, an El Paso Democrat who has criticized the policy since it was initiated, said the decision to end it should be coupled with an overhaul of the nation’s approach to immigration.
“Addressing immigration exclusively at our nation’s borders represents a failure of vision and policy,” Escobar said. “Outdated policies and processes harm migrants and asylum-seekers, waste millions of dollars annually, misuse law enforcement personnel, and do not make us more ‘secure.’ Now is the time to reform an outdated and inhumane system.
“Two South Texas congressional Democrats, Henry Cuellar of Laredo and Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen, last week joined several members of the state’s GOP delegation in Congress in signing a letter urging Biden to leave Title 42 in place.
More: Texas’ top general says Operation Lone Star needs another $531 million to keep going. Shortly after the Biden administration announced last week it was ending the policy on May 23, Abbott described the move as “recklessness.
“”President Biden has chosen to jeopardize the safety and security of those very Americans he swore to protect and defend by ending Title 42 expulsions,” the governor said in a news release.
Expecting ‘an influx’ in immigration.
As the administration in late March prepared for the lifting of Title 42, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield told reporters “There will be an influx of people to the border” and that officials were “doing a lot of work to plan for that contingency.”
Still, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the shift in policy
will not be an open invitation for baseless asylum claims. “We know that smugglers will spread misinformation to take advantage of vulnerable migrants,” Mayorkas said in the statement. “Let me be clear: Those unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the
United States will be removed.”
John C. Moritz covers Texas government and politics for the USA Today Network in Austin. Contact him at jmoritz@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter @JohnnieMo.
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