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TexasTowelie

(116,515 posts)
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 06:38 AM Apr 2022

Migrants arrive in D.C. on buses sent by GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

WASHINGTON — A group of undocumented migrants arrived in the nation's capital Wednesday on a bus sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, part of the Republican governor's strategy to oppose the Biden administration's rescinding of a Trump-era border policy.

"By busing migrants to Washington, D.C., the Biden Administration will be able to more immediately meet the needs of the people they are allowing to cross our border," Abbott said in a statement Wednesday, adding that another busload is en route.

The migrants, from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, were being dropped off between Union Station and the Capitol as "part of Governor Abbott’s response to the Biden Administration’s decision to end Title 42 expulsions," his office said.

Abbott, who is running for re-election in November, said last week that he had directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to charter buses to transport the migrants to D.C. "Texas should not have to bear the burden of the Biden Administration’s failure to secure our border," he said Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrants-arrive-dc-buses-sent-gop-texas-gov-greg-abbott-rcna24229

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Migrants arrive in D.C. on buses sent by GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2022 OP
And the NJCher Apr 2022 #1
Wow, just wow. Ferrets are Cool Apr 2022 #2
Did he arrange for their immediate care when they were dropped off? Budi Apr 2022 #3
How can this not be illegal Duncanpup Apr 2022 #4
What makes it illegal ? MichMan Apr 2022 #8
Abbott probably violated federal law: Title 8, U.S.C. 1324(A) sop Apr 2022 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Apr 2022 #6
GOP leaders don't have to follow state or federal law. Irish_Dem Apr 2022 #7
Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Apr 2022 #9
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. Did he arrange for their immediate care when they were dropped off?
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 06:48 AM
Apr 2022

Just left them on their own??
Abbott did this to human beings.

MichMan

(13,045 posts)
8. What makes it illegal ?
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 08:57 AM
Apr 2022

Millions of people transport humans across state lines every day in cars, trains, planes, and busses.

sop

(11,093 posts)
5. Abbott probably violated federal law: Title 8, U.S.C. 1324(A)
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 06:57 AM
Apr 2022

Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii), "Domestic Transporting," makes it an offense for any person who "knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law."

Response to sop (Reply #5)

Irish_Dem

(56,107 posts)
7. GOP leaders don't have to follow state or federal law.
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 08:15 AM
Apr 2022

They appear to have permanent and total immunity.

Rhiannon12866

(221,178 posts)
9. Good Grief!
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 05:32 PM
Apr 2022

He's gotten away with so much that he doesn't hesitate to do whatever's the most outrageous, cruel and counter productive action possible. Vote him out!

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