It was April 6 when a “fed-up” Gov. Greg Abbott said he’d been sending charter buses full of migrants to the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and as The Daily Beast reports, Abbott followed through with his “gross stunt.” The White House dismissed it as a publicity stunt, but the busload of migrants showed up in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. “Biden refuses to come see the mess he’s made at the border,” Abbott tweeted, “so Texas is bringing the border to him.”
The Daily Beast obviously was offended that migrants were bused to D.C., but as Townhall’s Katie Pavlich pointed out and as Fox News’ Bill Melugin has reported, busloads of migrants are dropped off in towns like Brownsville, Texas regularly and are given taxi rides to the airport to go … somewhere that’s not D.C.
Official Biden White House policy is to bus and fly thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants to American towns around the country in the dead of night, but Psaki is calling Governor Abbott’s plan to send illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C. a “publicity stunt.”
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 7, 2022
The best part is that most of the migrants said they wouldn’t be staying in D.C. and would be leaving for other cities.
Eleven migrants who spoke to The Daily Beast at Union Station said they wouldn’t be staying in the D.C. area https://t.co/8seY56SJFI
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 13, 2022
Zachary Petrizzo and Rachel Olding report:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott followed through on his cruel promise to dump asylum seekers and migrants in the capital with the first busload conveniently arriving outside Fox News’ office on Wednesday morning.
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Father John Enzler of Catholic Charities told The Daily Beast that another two buses are expected to arrive from Texas—one later Wednesday and one on Thursday morning.
“Its not well organized,” he said. Enzler added that his organization’s facilities—totaling 34 sites in D.C.—are mostly full but will look to “transition” migrants.
Oh, what a shame … migration over the southern border isn’t well organized and the facilities are mostly full. Guess what’s going to happen when Title 42 expires, guys.
We like that busing migrants to D.C. was a “cruel promise” and a “gross stunt” — D.C. does suck — but if they’d been bused to Brownsville, The Daily Beast would never have reported on it.
Even the illegals despise the corruption and want to leave D.C. immediately.
— JamieRJN (@JamieRJN) April 13, 2022
Why is it a gross stunt?
— ZW (@zwatson18) April 13, 2022
Not a stunt. Just want to share the experience
— SN Upshaw 🇺🇲 (@SNUpshaw) April 13, 2022
"Gross" "dumping"……a lot of agenda here for a job that the federal government is required to do and isn't.
— Wittorical (@Wittorical) April 13, 2022
Gross stunt lol like AOC crying at the parking lot? Lol
— Paul Perez (@gfunkperez) April 13, 2022
Why should all the migrants stay in Texas??
— together 4ever (@iluvdustan) April 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/DonBrooks2022/status/1514330409961668610
Abbott is doing the exact thing the Biden admin is already doing, which is transferring migrants to other cities. The only difference is the destination. I guess that means the Biden admin is also participating in "human trafficking". #hypocrites #itworksbothways
— Ramblin' Man (@RamblinManTx) April 13, 2022
Hey @rachelolding you should write about all the flights in the middle of the night taking migrants around the country for months. The ones with the pilots who weren’t informed of their destinations until the last minute. The ones that weren’t announced like these buses were.
— ✌️🇺🇦🌻Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) April 13, 2022
Maybe The Daily Beast should follow the Washington Post and hire a correspondent in Texas to cover the place where this happens all day, every day.
Related:
Biden WH dismissed Texas Gov. Abbott’s threat to bus illegal immigrants to DC as a ‘publicity stunt’ but pics/videos say otherwise https://t.co/N8NbTkMVBh
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 13, 2022
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