As Biden’s border remains porous at best and thousands upon thousands of migrants stream across it by the week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been trying to make the situation less acceptable to the left by shipping some of those illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities like Chicago and New York.
That operation has been relatively extensive, with Gov. Abbott having now bused more than 50,000 migrants to those sanctuary cities across the country in a sustained campaign. Such is what the governor highlighted on X (formerly Twitter) early in October, noting the number of migrants so far shipped to blue areas and which cities they mainly were delivered to.
He said, “Texas has bused over 50,000 migrants to sanctuary cities to provide relief to overwhelmed border towns. These cities experience a fraction of what Texas border communities face daily. Busing will continue until Biden secures the border.”
Texas has bused over 50,000 migrants to sanctuary cities to provide relief to overwhelmed border towns.
These cities experience a fraction of what Texas border communities face daily.
Busing will continue until Biden secures the border. pic.twitter.com/ZrivI2brnZ
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) October 5, 2023
Comments on the post were largely positive, some even calling on Gov. Abbott to expand the program and make it even more obvious to the left how untenable the current situation is. One commenter, for example, said, “Please 🙏 send them to Rehoboth Beach, Joe Biden spends more time there than anywhere. I want to see pictures of him trying to ride his bike through the park & sit shoulder to shoulder on the beach with his new neighbors.”
Another said, “You are doing a great job now the citizens are awaking to the problem with the invasion once they get into their cities. I am still waiting for you to send some to Portland, Oregon and Seattle though. Why do they not get to share the pain being Sanctuary cities? Have a nice day fellow patriot.”
Still others were upset that migrants were moved deeper into the United States instead of just being sent back to whence they came, but Gov. Abbott is constitutionally unable to deport migrants, so it is unclear how he would do so without risking some sort of escalatory and potentially violent confrontation with the federal government.
The program of shipping migrants to blue cities to force them to reevaluate has worked to some extent. New York City Mayor Eric Adams blamed Gov. Abbott for his city’s migrant-induced woes, saying that the situation began with “a madman down in Texas.”
Mayor Adams said, “We turned this city around in 20 months and then what happened? A madman down in Texas decided he wanted to bus people up to New York City. 110,000 migrants we have to feed, clothe, house, give them everything they need.”
Sanctuary City Mayor Adams is upset about his policies: "We turned this city around in 20 months and then what happened? A madman down in Texas decided he wanted to bus people up to New York City. 110,000 migrants we have to feed, clothe, house, give them everything they need." pic.twitter.com/3511gB9iYF
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 7, 2023
Responding, Gov. Abbott’s office said, “With millions of residents, New York is only dealing with a fraction of what our small border communities deal with on a day-to-day basis. Instead of complaining about 13,000 migrants sent from Texas, Mayor Adams should be calling out his party leader, President Biden, who has been flying planeloads of migrants all around the country and oftentimes in the cover of night, straining state and local resources across the country. Until President Biden steps up and does his job, Texas will continue busing migrants to sanctuary cities to provide relief to our overwhelmed border towns.”
Featured image credit: By World Travel & Tourism Council – Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54703342
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