Gov. Abbott’s migrant busing program is what asylum advocates wanted all along. | via TexasTribune
A group of migrants boards a Chicago Transit Authority bus at Chicago’s Union Station to be taken to a Salvation Army shelter after arriving from Texas on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.
“Abbott is one of the only state actors that is giving immigrants a free benefit, a free ride,” said Abel Nuñez, executive director of the Central American Resource Center. “You’re actually creating a free program that if a Democrat would have said it, he would have gone against it.
Late Wednesday, Abbott announced Chicago, another sanctuary city for immigrants with a Democratic mayor, was being added as a new program destination as the first bus with 60 migrants arrived. Immigration experts say the governor’s effort to score political points is making it easier for migrants to stay in the country.
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