Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will be be bussing thousands of illegal migrants who cross the border straight to Washington DC and leaving them on the steps of the US Capitol for President Biden to deal with.
Announcing the new plan at a press conference Wednesday, the GOP governor said: '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’ve been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington DC.
'We are sending them to the US capital where the Biden admin will be more immediately able to address the needs of the people who come across our border.'
Abbott said the plan was to drop migrants off at the steps of the US Capitol building itself, and added: 'The Biden administration, they’ve been dumping large numbers of migrants, on cities up and down the border, leaving cities to grapple with challenges they don’t have the capability of dealing with.
'They themselves have been putting these migrants on buses to san Antonio. So I said, "I've got a better idea, instead of bussing these people to San Antonio, lets continue the ride all the way to Washington DC."
Asked how many buses might be deployed for the scheme, chief of Texas's Division of Emergency Management Nim Kidd said they'd deploy as many as needed - and cited the 900 previously called in to help tackled previous disasters.
Kidd told the press conference: 'The long answer is in past disasters we have pulled up to 900 buses for evacuations. We will use as many buses as we need to follow the governor’s direction to get this done .'
The announcement comes as the Biden administration announced it would drop Title 42, the pandemic-era border restriction that immediately expels migrants back to Texas, which was enacted by Donald Trump.
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