The number of migrants offered free passage from Texas over the past year is a fraction of those who regularly make their way from the southern border to cities around the country.
Families load onto a bus outside of the Office of Emergency Management migrant center in El Paso, Texas, on Oct. 7, 2022. This center serves for the staging area for migrants before leaving El Paso on free buses bound for Chicago, Miami, and New York City.
“It is abhorrent that an American elected official is using human beings as pawns in his cheap political games,” Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said of the busing program in June.But the reality is that the number of migrants offered free passage from Texas over the past year is a fraction of those who regularly make their way from the southern border to cities around the country — to places where there are jobs, family connections and networks of other immigrants from their homelands.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a campaign event ahead of the 2022 Midterm Elections in San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 24, 2022. The Texas governor has been offering migrants free rides from border towns to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and several other cities since last year, and the arrivals have overwhelmed the resources of some of them.
The Texas busing program has sent about 34,740 migrants to other states since April 2022, enough to populate a small city. But that is a paltry subset of the hundreds of thousands who have crossed the border during that period, most of whom have probably also made their way to destinations outside Texas.New York alone has received more than 100,000 migrants in the last year; only 13,100 were sent on buses provided by the state of Texas.
In contrast to Mexicans and Central Americans, who have been migrating to the United States for decades, Venezuelans are unlikely to have friends and family members to receive them because their wave of migration is a new phenomenon.
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