Texas Governor is making good on his word to fight President Biden’s immigration policies. A bus from Texas dropped off a group of migrants blocks from the U.S. Capitol Wednesday morning as part of Gov. Abbott’s plan to address Biden’s border.
Last week, Gov Abbott announced he was directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to transport migrants released from federal custody in Texas to the nation’s capital. [Read Next: Texas Governor Directs Buses to Drop Migrants Off at U.S. Capitol]
Fox News reports:
The bus pulled up at approximately 8 a.m. local time, blocks away from the U.S. Capitol building. Fox News has learned that they came from the Del Rio sector in Texas, after coming to the U.S. from Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Upon the bus’s arrival in Washington, D.C., individuals disembarked one by one except for family units who exited together. They checked in with officials and had wristbands they were wearing cut off before being told they could go.
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.
However, the governor’s legal authority to transport busloads of migrants to the U.S. Capitol remains in question, legal precedent prevents states from making their own immigration policies.
