(The Center Square) – Texas has bused more than 50,000 people who’ve illegally entered the U.S. and were unlawfully released into the U.S., Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday.
The majority have been bused to New York City, followed by Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles.
Abbott began the busing strategy in April 2022. He first sent foreign nationals who illegally entered the U.S. in Texas to Washington, D.C. Since then, over 12,500 people chose to be transported to the nation’s capital.
Last year, he expanded the strategy to send people to New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia. Since last August, Texas bused more than 18,500 people to New York City and over 13,500 people to Chicago. Since last November, Texas bused over 3,200 people to Philadelphia.
This year, he began busing people to Denver and Los Angeles. So far, more than 3,200 people have arrived in Denver since May 18 and over 940 to Los Angeles since June 14.
The governor recently directed additional buses to Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, after a surge of people came roughly two weeks ago. He said he was sending them to self-declared sanctuary cities to provide much-needed relief to overrun Texas border towns.
“Until President [Joe] Biden upholds his constitutional duty to secure America’s southern border, Texas will continue to deploy as many buses as needed to relieve the strain caused by the surge of illegal crossings,” Abbott said.
Adults must sign a waiver for themselves and minors under their care, provide their Department of Homeland Security documentation, and choose which of the six self-described sanctuary cities they want to go to.
Texas border mayors and county judges have been instructed to notify the Texas Department of Emergency Management of any DHS-facilitated drop-off in their communities so the agency can help move people out of Texas.
The majority seeking Texas-taxpayer funded transportation north are choosing to go to the cities of New York and Chicago, according to state data. The same is true for those arriving in El Paso. Chicago and New York City remain the primary destinations, however, Denver has been added as a third destination.
The Democratic-led city of El Paso began its own busing strategy over a year ago but it’s funded through money it receives from FEMA. The city says the current wave of people began arriving in April 2022; “the sudden surge began in late August.” The overwhelming majority are coming from Venezuela, roughly 70%; the remainder are from Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba.
As of Friday, Oct. 6, the city of El Paso was releasing 1,534 border crossers into the community every day. Roughly 480 people are being bused to Chicago, New York City and Denver every day from El Paso.
Every day, five charter buses full of people are leaving El Paso and arriving in Chicago. New York City and Denver are each receiving three charter buses full of people a day, according to city data.
The United States is being invaded by millions of people from perhaps 150 different countries, and not one of them had to fire a single shot.
They just walked in.
And NOTHING is being done about it.
Great job by Joe and the disgusting, dispicable dem-rats.
The illegal immigrant invasion started under the tinkerbell Barack Obama/Biden administration and now the Corrupt puppet Biden/Obama administration is again encouraging, promoting, supporting and protecting multi-millions of illegal immigrants and forcing the taxpayers to totally support the illegal immigrants!
The president may be incompetent, but he’s not stupid. He’s just counting on the American people to be stupid.
This is just another example of Obama’s deliberate attacks on the U.S.A. I think we will find that the Democrats are funding this migration in order to create more votes for the destructive democrats.
Obama, sock-puppet Joe Biden’s puppeteer is not stupid; in fact he is very brilliant. The problem we are facing is that many U.S. citizens ARE stupid and not too bright. This Democrat Party enemy from within is doing EXACTLY what he has set out to do and people are too foolish to see that they are being lead to slaughter.
July 2014 Obama request for $3.7 billion to address the border crisis “is so much smoke and mirrors,” legislators, law enforcement and other federal officials said. The bulk of the money is earmarked for resettlement rather than for removal and border enforcement. Out of the White House’s $3.7 billion request, $1.8 billion, or about 49% of the entire supplemental request, would go to HHS for resettlement of illegal minors and entire family units, including adult men and women. Funds would be provided “for acquisition, construction, improvement, repair, operation and maintenance of real property and facilities” According to internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents, 47% of the adults subject to expedited removal would be relocated and resettled in the U.S.
The administration’s supplemental request also includes a “general provision” by which it would be allowed to move around as much as 30% of the funding as they choose. The Department of Justice (DOJ) would be given $15 million to hire attorneys to defend unaccompanied alien children against deportation in removal proceedings before an immigration judge and $1.1 million would be given to DOJ for “immigration litigation attorneys.”
Does this sound like Obama wants to secure the border or to send these illegal immigrants home?
Plenty is being done about it, just NONE IS GOOD… JUST look at all the times our so-called border agents, have been ORDERED TO CUT the wire, or open the fence, to HELP THEM COME IN!
They should be sending these Busloads of Invaders to Martha’s Vineyard, Beverly Hills, Sacramento, Calif, and all the other Sanctuary Cities. It would be much better to STOP the invaders at the border and turn them around, send them back. Congress Stop funding Foreign Aid to the invaders home countries.
WE already saw just what happens, when they do so, in martha’s vinyard. THEY KICKED THEM OUT IN LESS than a day.
New York wanted a tourist industry. Now they have their wish and are complaining about it
You couldn’t PAY ME enough to become a tourist to NY these days.
I told them how to do it build a U Tunnel and bring them thru it and back into Mexico Period
Busing illegals to Sanctuary cities was the smartest thing republicans did. Too bad we didn’t start earlier.
PITY we didn’t just bus them all the way to the southern tip of south america!! AND DROP THEM OFF there.
All I can think is 50,000 Illegals…Is That All. Considering there were millions that came in..no on really knows, it should have bee 1,000X That.
we are doomed as a nation because people are to dam stoopid!
AND too damn bleeding hearted…
Lifting or modifying sanctions in central and south America wouldn’t hurt.