The 300th bus of immigrants left Texas for the Windy City, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) announced Thursday.
“The 300th Texas bus of migrants just left for Chicago. As Biden does nothing, Texas will continue taking unprecedented action to relieve our overwhelmed border communities & secure the border,” Abbott tweeted.
The 300th Texas bus of migrants just left for Chicago.
As Biden does nothing, Texas will continue taking unprecedented action to relieve our overwhelmed border communities & secure the border.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 11, 2022
Abbott, who defeated Beto O’Rourke this week and secured a third term as governor, made headlines in September for sending buses of immigrants to Washington, D.C., and dropping them outside the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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According to a September press release from the governor’s office, Texas had bused more than 7,900 immigrants to D.C. since April and more than 2,200 immigrants to New York City since Aug. 5.
More than 300 immigrants had arrived in Chicago as of September, the release said.
“The busing mission is providing much-needed relief to our overwhelmed border communities,” Abbott said in the release.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who handily won reelection on Nov. 8, has also transported immigrants to sanctuary cities, most notably flying 50 immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September.
The immigrants flown to the wealthy Massachusetts island filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they took the flight under false pretenses and suffered harm “at a minimum exceeds $75,000.”
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“It is opportunistic that activists would use illegal immigrants for political theater. If these activists spent even a fraction of this time and effort at the border, perhaps some accountability would be brought to the Biden Administration’s reckless border policies that entice illegal immigrants to make dangerous and often lethal journeys,” his office wrote in a September statement regarding the lawsuit obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Republican governors have been sending immigrants to sanctuary cities recently as immigrants flood the southern border. In fiscal 2022, Customs and Border Protection reported more than 2 million encounters on the southern border.
