Texas’s Republican governor promised to keep sending migrants to the nation’s capital as Border Patrol agents struggle with a surging number of people trying to enter the United States.
“We are going to load them up and send them to Washington, D.C.,” Abbott told Fox News’s Sean Hannity Monday. “If we run out of room there, Delaware looks like a great location,” he added, referring to President Joe Biden’s home state.
“It’s an atrocity,” Abbott said. “We have a President of the United States that is not securing the border. He is violating laws passed by Congress to secure the border, and the President is turning a blind eye to security by allowing people on terrorist watch lists to come into the United States of America.”
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Abbott vowed he would not stay idle and watch the Biden Administration overrun Texas’s small towns with migrant drop-offs.
“What the President is doing is outrageous, and Texas is taking unprecedented action. The seventh bus is en route from Texas to Washington, D.C., right now. This busing process will continue,” Abbott said.
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And the governor claimed his plan was working.
“Good news that [White House press secretary] Jen Psaki did not tell you,” Abbott said. “Jen Psaki received word that the Border Patrol will no longer be dropping people off in local communities from which we have been busing people.”
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In October 2005, Texas Gov. Rick Perry traveled to the border city of Laredo and announced Operation Linebacker, a new initiative that he said would protect the state’s residents from terrorist groups such as al-Qaida.
Without suggesting evidence, Perry said such terrorist groups, along with drug cartels and gangs, were trying to exploit the U.S.-Mexico border. A press release from the governor’s office said Perry cautioned that after the September 11, 2001, attacks, criminal organizations could “import terror, illegal narcotics and weapons of mass destruction.”
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Perry said Texas would step in to fill the gaps left by the federal government, increasing state law enforcement presence along the border and providing new investigative tools. He stopped directly attacking President George W. Bush or the Republican-led Congress. “The state of Texas cannot wait for the federal government to implement needed border security measures,” Perry said, explaining that the state would use $10 million in funding that included federal grants for the operation. Two months later, the governor highlighted his border security efforts while announcing his reelection campaign.
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