On 4/26/2022 8:52 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:
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> "WASHINGTON — Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas devised a plan this month to
> rattle the Biden administration by busing migrants from the southwest
> border to the nation’s capital during a period of record crossings.
>
> So far, though, the plan has not resulted in the chaos that Mr. Abbott
> predicted.
>
> “I would like to say thank you to the governor of Texas,” Chadrack
> Mboyo-Bola, 26, said on Thursday morning, after he and 13 other migrants
> stepped off one of the chartered buses that had provided a 33-hour ride
> paid for by the State of Texas. Blocks from the U.S. Capitol, they were
> greeted by volunteers who would help them reach their desired
> destinations around the country to await their day in immigration court.
>
> Three days earlier, Mr. Mboyo-Bola and his family had crossed into the
> United States from Mexico along the border in Central Texas after an
> eight-week journey from Brazil. After spending a day in Border Patrol
> custody in Eagle Pass, Texas, they and about 20 other new immigrants
> accepted an offer to board a Washington-bound bus in nearby Del Rio.
>
> Mr. Abbott says his goal is to draw attention to what he and other
> Republicans describe as the failed immigration policies of President
> Biden during a period of record crossings along the southwest border.
>
> “The decision and the action to bus people from border communities was
> to alleviate the strain that’s put on the local communities along the
> border,” the governor said at a news conference on Thursday. “I’m going
> to take the border to President Biden.”
>
> Mr. Abbott’s plan, however, happens to fit into the Biden
> administration’s strategy for responding to the surge in migrant
> crossings, which officials anticipate will increase sharply once a
> public health rule imposed during the coronavirus pandemic is lifted at
> the end of May. The Biden plan includes working with state and local
> governments and nonprofits to provide support, assistance and
> transportation to move migrants out of border communities and toward
> their final destinations in a humane and orderly way.
>
> “In a way, it’s actually perfect,” said Bilal Askaryar, a spokesman for
> Welcome With Dignity, a collective of about 100 local and national
> groups that help migrants. “Unintentionally, Governor Abbott sent them
> to one of the best places in the nation to welcome people.”
>
> In truth, the migrants that Texas is sending to Washington are coming
> voluntarily and are only a fraction of the thousands crossing the border
> daily. As of Monday, Mr. Abbott had sent about 195 migrants who
> volunteered for the trip to Washington since the first bus arrived on
> April 13, though more were en route. Mr. Mboyo-Bola’s bus was the eighth
> from Texas; by Friday, two more had arrived. The Texas Division of
> Emergency Management has been chartering the buses, according to Mr.
> Abbott’s office."
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/us/politics/abbott-immigration-texas-dc-biden.html
>
>
> TB
He got them out of Texas.

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