For months, Abbott, whocomfortably won reelection earlier this month, has said the migrant transportation campaign has been successful in diverting national attention to the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, where federal officials recorded nearly 2.4 million migrant encounters in...
Washington— Texas' Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced his state had started busing migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Denver, Colorado, an expansion of a controversial operation to transport migrant adults and families released from federal custody to Democratic-led cities. Abbo...
Suburbs put brakes on migrant bus arrivals Mayor: Buses dropping off NY-bound migrants in NJ The program sends migrants to other U.S. cities as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” — a multibillion dollar initiative to slow down border crossings. The Republican governor began...
Records: Abbott’s migrant busing cost Texas $124 million AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas has spent more than $124 million sending buses of migrants to sanctuary cities, according to records obtained by Nexstar. According to documents Nexstar obtained, Texas has paid $124,603,616.19 to bus more than...
stating that it would help stop drug and migrant smuggling. In the past year, the governor has deployed more than 10,000 National Guard members, along with state Department of Public Safety troopers, to patrol the border, build barriers and arrest some migrant men on state criminal trespassing...
Migrant busing The poll delved into how people felt aboutAbbott’s program to bus migrantsawaiting their asylum hearings to other cities outside the state. A majority (53%) said they supported the busing program, while 36% opposed it. Meanwhile, 10% said they were unsure about it or...
Authorities are trying to determine what caused the death of a 3-year-old girl who was traveling on a Texas-funded bus transporting asylum seekers to Chicago on Thursday. Preliminary autopsy results from Friday proved inconclusive, Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon said. "The Marion Co. Coroner'...
But there are signs Abbott’s program is having an impact in Texas. During the time Operation Lone Star has been in effect, Texas has seen a 6.9% increase in the total monthly migrant encounters reported at the border. During that time, Arizona has seen a 36.3% increase, Califo...
our neighborhood here in San Antonio. I found it very interesting to hear how these predominantly U.S.-Latino men have been shaped by their cultural and faith experiences here in the United States. Some grew up in migrant worker families, moving across the country to follow harvests as the ...
Read full article: Judge says New York can't use 'antiquated, unconstitutional' law to block migrant buses from Texas A judge has ruled that New York City can’t use a two-century-old “anti-pauper” law to block the state of Texas from offering migrants free bus rides to the city. ...