The first bus of undocumented immigrants from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C. Wednesday as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to the Biden administration’s immigration policy.
Abbott first announced the plan last week during a news conference after the Biden administration indicated the end of, a federal provision invoked that allowed federal agents to quickly expel undocumented immigrants due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response, Abbott announced the busing initiative, which offers migrants voluntary rides to Washington on a charter bus paid for by the state of Texas. Each bus can take roughly 40 migrants, according to the Texas Division of Emergency Management. The first bus to arrive had migrants from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, according to the governor’s office.Though Abbott celebrated the busing strategy, another part of his immigration response has drawn bipartisan scrutiny.
Abbott’s plan to have Texas DPS troopers set up inspection checkpoints for commercial traffic along the border, even though the trucks are already inspected by Customs and Border Protection officials. The secondary inspections, which Abbott said was necessary to stop drug and human smuggling, haveNEW: White House press sec. Jen Psaki says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “unnecessary and redundant” inspections of trucks at border are “causing significant disruptions” to supply chains.
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