Border Patrol stops releasing migrants to town that called in Abbott buses to DC

AUSTIN, Texas — The Border Patrol has walked back its plans to release migrants into a Texas town after local officials vowed to take up Gov. Greg Abbott‘s offer to bus them to Washington, D.C., according to the mayor.

Don McLaughlin, the mayor of the remote town of Uvalde, Texas, said the Border Patrol’s plans to release more than 1,000 people each week into his town of 16,000 residents were suddenly reversed following Abbott’s announcement last week in which he threatened to bus noncitizens up the East Coast to the Capitol.