A bus carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) last week announced plans to send them from his state’s southern border to the nation’s capital.
Fox News anchor John Roberts tweeted a picture of the bus parked outside the building that houses the network’s bureau on Capitol Hill and that of several other news outlets on Wednesday morning.
Abbott said during a press conference last week the migrants would be voluntarily sent to Washington so that President Biden could “immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border.”
Abbott also ordered the state to charter flights to transport migrants to the nation’s capital after they have been processed by the Department of Homeland Security, The Texas Tribune rported.
The Biden administration earlier this month rescinded Title 42, a Trump-era immigration rule that prevented people seeking asylum from getting an immediate hearing if they were coming from a country with a communicable disease, such as the coronavirus. Title 42’s recension is effective May 23.
The White House last week dismissed Abbott’s plans to send migrants to Washington as a “publicity stunt.”
“I’m not aware of what authority the governor would be doing that under,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. “I think it’s pretty clear this is a publicity stunt. His own office admits that a migrant would need to voluntarily be transported, and he can’t compel them to because, again, enforcement of our country’s immigration laws lies with the federal government, not a state.”
In a statement on Wednesday, Psaki slammed Abbott’s immigration policies, saying his “unnecessary and redundant inspections of trucks transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and raising prices for families in Texas and across the country.”
“Local businesses and trade associations are calling on Governor Abbott to reverse this decision because trucks are facing lengthy delays exceeding 5 hours at some border crossings and commercial traffic has dropped by as much as 60 percent,” Psaki said. “The continuous flow of legitimate trade and travel and CBP’s [Customs and Border Protection] ability to do its job should not be obstructed. Governor Abbott’s actions are impacting people’s jobs, and the livelihoods of hardworking American families.”
Fox News anchor John Roberts tweeted a picture of the bus parked outside the building that houses the network’s bureau on Capitol Hill and that of several other news outlets on Wednesday morning.
Abbott said during a press conference last week the migrants would be voluntarily sent to Washington so that President Biden could “immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border.”
Abbott also ordered the state to charter flights to transport migrants to the nation’s capital after they have been processed by the Department of Homeland Security, The Texas Tribune rported.
The Biden administration earlier this month rescinded Title 42, a Trump-era immigration rule that prevented people seeking asylum from getting an immediate hearing if they were coming from a country with a communicable disease, such as the coronavirus. Title 42’s recension is effective May 23.
The White House last week dismissed Abbott’s plans to send migrants to Washington as a “publicity stunt.”
“I’m not aware of what authority the governor would be doing that under,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. “I think it’s pretty clear this is a publicity stunt. His own office admits that a migrant would need to voluntarily be transported, and he can’t compel them to because, again, enforcement of our country’s immigration laws lies with the federal government, not a state.”
In a statement on Wednesday, Psaki slammed Abbott’s immigration policies, saying his “unnecessary and redundant inspections of trucks transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and raising prices for families in Texas and across the country.”
“Local businesses and trade associations are calling on Governor Abbott to reverse this decision because trucks are facing lengthy delays exceeding 5 hours at some border crossings and commercial traffic has dropped by as much as 60 percent,” Psaki said. “The continuous flow of legitimate trade and travel and CBP’s [Customs and Border Protection] ability to do its job should not be obstructed. Governor Abbott’s actions are impacting people’s jobs, and the livelihoods of hardworking American families.”
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15 comments:
Abbott has nothing better to do than dream=up silliness. We are one country and busing migrants anywhere does not remove the problem.
Must be the wheelchair life.
Send everyone of these human cockroaches to Dementia Joe the Potato Head. He loves illegal aliens. Keep dumping them on D.C. Abbott. Good job Greg Abbott. Send some to Osama Obama too.
Gov'ner Aboot staging a "publicity stunt"??
I am shocked... shocked, I say..
My pearls!!
Where are my pearls??
Ojalá y haci hayan autobuses durante un desastre o para necesidad de evacuación.
Who cares if it is a publicity stunt? Our Governor did what he said he'd do! Hey Montoya, those illegal immigrants wanted into the country. Well, here you go! Wait till the bleeding hearts start crying about too much brown in Washington, LOL! Keep sending the buses Governor Abbott!
I want to go!
YES send them to Biden let him handle the illegals. Why should Texas take care of them and bankrupt Texas . Biden will give them driver licenses , citizenship and will make them vote for the Demoncratic Party.
That's where they wanted to go. To do the jobs that blacks won't do.
Put myra on one of these buses and leave her there, she's a meskin.
GREAT JOB GOVENROR ABBOTT, SOMETHING THE DEMOCRATS NEVER WANTED TO STOP OR FIX. LAST TIME CONGRESS DIS SOME IMMIGRATION REFORM WAS 39 YEARS AGO OR 1983,
I THINK THEY ARE OUTTA TIME PUTOS, ABOTT HAS MY VOTE AGAIN.
LAPDOG TEXAS GOVERNOR STILL KISSING TRUMPS ASS WHAT ELSE IS HE GONNA DO TO IMPRESS EL PENDEJO TRUMP. HE ALREADY KISSED HIS ASS WHAT'S NEXT TEXAS GOVERNOR AND CAN'T GET ON A HORSE PINCHE PENDEJO KISS-ASS RACIST REPUBLICAN...
GOV ABBOTT IS A HUMAN SMUGGLER.
CHARGING REGULAR PRICE, $6,000 A PERSON.
He ain't no cowboy, can't ride a horse, pinche idiota. Kiss-ass,lapdog texas governor racist republican.
Keep sending them!!!!
Meskins road trip
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