In two years, Texas has bused more than 119,000 people to Democrat-led cities, shifting both migration patterns and the debate over immigration.
The list of cities keeps expanding.
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 the border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, 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.”
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@SenateSeatBartGreen2yrs2Y
I praise Gov. Abbott for his action in making the immigration a national problem which it has always been but politics especially from Democratic cities and states let it be a southern Republican problem without the national resources to address it.
Pressure on Biden from his Democratic cohorts forced him ahead of the election season to do something, though still not enough, just enough to placate this fellow Democrats through the end of 2024.
@BagelsBennyDemocrat2yrs2Y
This was likely one of the smartest political moves. As a liberal New Yorker, I often noticed that people on "my side" would dismiss the concerns of southern states as purely race-related, overlooking the genuine challenges they faced.
Texas has effectively raised awareness in predominantly blue cities about the real difficulties associated with mass migration.
I hope this shifts our national conversation towards finding constructive solutions to these challenges. We need to avoid demonizing people while ensuring that mass-migration doesn't negatively impact the lives of U.S. residents.
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