By Rachel Olding, Zachary Petrizzo
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.
Abbott vowed last week to bus them to the Capitol steps in response to the Biden administration’s decision to end Title 42, a pandemic-era emergency order implemented by Donald Trump that allowed migrants to be sent back to Mexico at the border, even if they were seeking asylum.
“To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington D.C.,” he said. “We are sending them to the United States Capitol where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border.”
Around 30 people got off the bus when it pulled up at about 9 a.m. in front of the office building housing Fox News, MSNBC and C-SPAN, a few blocks away from the Capitol. Fox News reported that officials cut off their wristbands and told them they were free to go.
Eleven migrants who spoke to The Daily Beast at Union Station said they wouldn’t be staying in the D.C. area. Instead, the group was planning to split up as Catholic Charities help them travel to New York City and Miami.
“Everybody [will] go somewhere else,” Ivan Calderon, an immigrant from Colombia, told The Daily Beast in comments translated by a Univision anchor.
Those that spoke with The Daily Beast said they had come from Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba.
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Multiple advocacy groups had decried Abbott’s stunt as callous, pointless and possibly illegal as states can’t enforce federal immigration law.
Lets see, BLM burned looted and occupied parts of major cities across America for most of 2020. The left said it was peaceful protests. Millions took part in it. A few 10’s of thousands stormed the capital and it was a insurrection. Biden opened the border in 2021 and to date over 2 million illegals have been bused and flown all over the US. Nothing from the dem’s in power or the MSM. Abbott buses around 40 to DC and it’s a Gross Stunt? Wait until that number reaches a few hundred thousand and lets see what they call it.