Greg Abbott Defends Busing Migrants From Texas to California

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is defending his resolution to ship undocumented immigrants from his dwelling state to Los Angeles, California, arguing that Lone Star State border cities have been “overwhelmed” by migrants.

Abbott, a Republican, introduced in a press launch that the “first group” of migrants had arrived by bus at Los Angeles’ Union Station on Wednesday night. Abbott has beforehand confronted criticism after sending busloads of migrants to different massive cities run by Democrats, together with Washington, D.C., Chicago, Illinois, and New York Metropolis.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera, communications director for immigrant rights group CHIRLA, informed the Los Angeles Instances {that a} group of 42 migrants, together with kids, arrived on the station following a 23-hour bus experience with none meals or water.

Abbott maintained that the transfer was crucial on account of President Joe Biden’s “border disaster,” whereas including that migrants already “search to go to” Los Angeles on account of its standing as a “sanctuary metropolis.”

“Texas’ small border cities stay overwhelmed and overrun by the hundreds of individuals illegally crossing into Texas from Mexico due to President Biden’s refusal to safe the border,” Abbott stated in a press release. “Los Angeles is a serious metropolis that migrants search to go to, significantly now that its metropolis leaders authorised its self-declared sanctuary metropolis standing.”

“Our border communities are on the frontlines of President Biden’s border disaster, and Texas will proceed offering this much-needed reduction till he steps as much as do his job and safe the border,” he continued.

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass denounced the transfer, saying in a press release that her metropolis was “on the receiving finish of a despicable stunt that Republican Governors have grown so keen on” and blasting Abbott for enjoying “low-cost political video games.”

Bass stated that her metropolis was “not caught off guard” by Abbott’s transfer. She stated that native officers and emergency providers came upon in regards to the impending arrival of the bus with sufficient time to tell nonprofit companions, who have been “already mobilized” when the migrants arrived.

“It’s abhorrent that an American elected official is utilizing human beings as pawns in his low-cost political video games,” stated Bass. “Los Angeles is just not a metropolis motivated by hate or worry and we completely is not going to be swayed or moved by petty politicians enjoying with human lives … We’ll all the time put folks’s well being and wellbeing over politics.”

Newsweek has reached out by way of e mail to the workplace of Abbott for remark.

Texas has despatched a complete of greater than 21,600 migrants to different cities throughout the nation because the busing coverage started final yr, in line with Abbott’s workplace.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a 2024 presidential hopeful, has additionally reportedly orchestrated the motion of undocumented migrants who arrived in Texas to California, sparking legal investigations in California and Texas.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who ceaselessly spars with DeSantis, known as the Florida Republican a “small, pathetic man” and steered that he needs to be charged with kidnapping.