Governor Abbott’s program to bus illegals from Texas to DC is apparently gearing up in full swing, as a second bus has already arrived in DC.
Via Fox News:
A second bus from Texas arrived near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., just before 4:30 a.m. Thursday, transporting more than a dozen illegal immigrants as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new plan to counter federal immigration policies during an ongoing border crisis.
Fourteen migrants stepped off the bus a block from Union Station on First Street. The migrants are from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Colombia, one man said.
One individual, who identified himself as Juan from Colombia, told Fox News that he flew by plane to Mexico and crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S.
Juan and his friend said they are going to New York to join their friends. Juan said he wants to be a barber.
Capitol Police arrived at around 4:45 a.m. to ask questions. Members of a Catholic charity arrived, waiting for the migrants, who began to walk to Union Station at around 4:47 a.m.
Thursday’s arrival follows that of the first bus, which arrived in the nation’s capital Wednesday morning. That bus also carried immigrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Colombia. Fox News learned that they had come from the Del Rio sector in Texas.
It’s working! Texas Department of Emergency Management says the federal government has already stopped dropping illegals in some Texas cities since Abbott made the announcement:
According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott’s announcement on April 6.
TDEM said it dispatched buses over the weekend to border communities where it coordinated with officials to identify these immigrants. The agency added that each bus has the capacity and supplies necessary to carry up to 40 migrants released in Texas communities and transport them to Washington, D.C.
Clearly these buses aren’t at capacity yet, but this is certainly a good start.
Hopefully more and more illegals will want to be bused to DC where Biden and Pelosi can take care of them.
Although it’s going to take a lot of buses to really make a dint in the illegal crisis in Texas, but it does look like Abbott is making his point.