AUSTIN, Texas — El Paso, a city on the southern border and run by a Democratic mayor, may soon cease its busing operation of immigrants to Chicago and New York City, according to a report.
Since August, the city claimed it has sent nine to 14 buses of illegal immigrants to northern cities each day, resulting in potentially thousands of people dropped off over the past two months, according to a New York Post report.
A senior city official cited the Biden administration’s decision last week to turn away all illegal immigrants from Venezuela as a game-changer for the city because it means they will not be overwhelmed with immigrants and have to provide transportation elsewhere.
“We realize that we won’t need the charters, so at the point, we will start handling it differently,” El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told the New York Post.
El Paso has sent more than 9,000 immigrants to Chicago and New York City as of early October. A similar statewide initiative that Greg Abbott commenced in the spring long before El Paso, has resulted in more than 11,000 immigrants transported as of one month ago.
The story cited 2,100 encounters of Venezuelan immigrants at the El Paso border each day.
Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows that Border Patrol agents arrested an average of 32 Venezuelans per day in August, hardly enough passengers to fill one bus, much less a dozen and far below the 2,100 figure. September and October data are not publicly available.
El Paso officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Democrats have denounced Abbott’s busing operation but kept quiet about El Paso’s, where state and congressional representatives and the governor are Democrats.
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A Vice report in October found the El Paso initiative has been a disaster, with starved children and passengers deceived about the bus’s destination.
