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| Anthony Vazquez /Chicago Sun-Times via AP |
The Biden administration is trouncing Texas and Arizona in sheer volume in the battle over busing migrants
In just a single week in late September, the Department of Homeland Security ran 79 “decompression buses” and made 29 “decompression flights” to shuttle illegal immigrants away from border locations in Arizona and Texas to places where the department said it had more capacity to handle them.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed the numbers in a regulatory filing this week describing his plans to try to deal with Venezuelan migrants.
The busing and flight operation has grown so big that the Homeland Security Department says it has had to siphon manpower away from its regular duties. The department acknowledged that is creating a vicious circle with less enforcement, which invites more illegal immigration, further overwhelming the border and demanding even more resources.
Meanwhile, the department is blasting Republican governors for their migrant-shipping efforts. That was too rich for some of them.
“Correct me if I’m wrong here, but this seems to be a case of ‘do as I say, not as I do,’” said C.J. Karamargin, a spokesman for Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, one of the Republicans who had been transporting migrants out of his state. --->READ MORE HERE
‘Do as I say, not as I do’ — the hypocrisy is glaring
Efforts by GOP governors in Texas and Arizona to bus illegal migrants released by DHS in their states to northern — and largely Democratic-controlled — cities have been a hot topic for the last few months. On October 19, the Washington Times has reported that: “The Biden administration is trouncing Texas and Arizona in sheer volume in the battle over busing migrants.” To quote a spokesman for Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R), “This seems to be a case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’.”
Governors’ Transport Program. In March, DHS started releasing illegal migrants into small Texas towns miles from the border. To take some of the pressure off those overwhelmed towns, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced on April 6 that he would offer released migrants bus rides to Washington, D.C.
Abbott was soon joined in this migrant busing program by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R), and by late July, around 3,500 migrants had been transported to the National Capital area by the two states. That’s when D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) asked for federal help to deal with her migrant surge.
Around the same time, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) sought federal assistance in dealing with migrants in his city, as well. Although Adams blamed NYC’s migrant influx on buses sent by Abbott and Ducey, that apparently wasn’t the case, but the mayor’s claims quickly encouraged Texas to send migrants to New York City, too.
Chicago was added to the itinerary for Abbott’s buses in August, and by October 7, the Texas Tribune reported that more than 10,000 migrants had been sent to the three cities by the Lone Star State.
That does not count more than 280 busloads of migrants the city of El Paso (which is controlled by Democrats) has bused to New York City, Chicago, and Miami or 50 migrants who were flown by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., in September.
The Times reports that the state of Texas has transported 12,500-plus migrants in toto, 8,200 of them to Washington, D.C., 3,300 to NYC, and 1,000 to Chicago, while the state of Arizona has sent out 2,200 others, all to D.C. --->READ MORE HERE
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