In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Crenshaw said it’s not a “policy move.”
“This is a move of desperation to get someone to pay attention to what we're dealing with [in] Texas, which is why I support it.”
“Will they have more likelihood of staying in the country? Basically everyone crossing our border has the same likelihood,” he asserted.
“Two million apprehensions just this year” were recorded at the southern border, he lamented. “That's an unprecedented number.”
The Republican governor started to bus migrants out of the state in April, with the first landing in Washington, D.C., in April. New York City became the latest blue state to which Texas transferred migrants earlier this month.
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Crenshaw also told CNN the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, was “hard to justify.”
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“It's not a question that it's bad to have classified material in a …non-secret compartmentalized location,” he asserted. “I still haven't seen any evidence that Trump was asked to give these documents back. He's been cooperating with them on these issues for a while now, for months. Why take it to an extreme extent?”
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“I think that's why you're seeing so much backlash from Republicans,” he said, adding: “There does seem to be a long history of loss of credibility at the Department of Justice at the hands of Democrats. And I think people are rightfully frustrated about that.”
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Crenshaw also talked about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, suggesting it had upended over 20 years of relative stability there.
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“We hadn't lost a single soldier in over a year. We had troops there and a strategic Bagram Air Base, not just for counterterrorism operations, close to Pakistan, close to Iran, close to China,” he noted.
“We give it up. Why? This emotional cry brought the troops home instead of addressing the issue's complexities. … We lost it all.”
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The first bus Abbott sent was back in April. Fox News reported that a bus with dozens of migrants — from Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — pulled up at approximately 8 a.m. local time, blocks away from the Capitol building.
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The media outlet added that the migrants checked in with officials and had wristbands they were wearing cut off. They then were told they could go.
Breitbart reported that Customs and Border Protection agents in Texas' Del Rio sector were being ordered to tell illegal migrants not to board buses bound for Washington D.C., a West Texas mayor said.
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