Texas Gov. Buses Illegal Immigrants to Three Black-Run Cities

By Cash Michaels –

Since last April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered approximately 10,000 undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, who came across the border to his state, bused to the “sanctuary” cities of New York, Washington, DC, and Chicago. All three cities have Black Democrats as mayors.

The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has called Gov. Abbott’s action “inhumane” and “horrific.” DC Mayor Muriel Bowser suggested that immigrants were being “tricked” into getting onto buses in Texas to be shipped to Democrat-run cities. And Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has blasted Gov. Abbott as “racist and xenophobic” while more buses from Texas roll into her city. Still, Mayor Lightfoot says Chicago welcomes the immigrants and maintains that they will all receive proper care from city, state, and county, as well as local nonprofit agencies set up to meet their needs. The federal government is expected to assist as well.

“The governor’s actions are not just inhumane; they are unpatriotic,” Lightfoot said. “This cannot be who we are as Americans. We have to stand for a different and better set of principles. If we are going to be a leader in the world, on an international stage and even here at home, we must reject these policies and practices.” Mayor Lightfoot also questioned Gov. Abbott’s professed faith in Christianity.

Bowser said on CBS’ Face the Nation that Gov. Abbott was filling up the homeless shelters in the nation’s Capital with illegal immigrants by tricking them.

“We have the federal government to work across state lines to prevent people from, really, being tricked into getting on buses. We think they’re largely asylum seekers who are going to final destinations that are not Washington, DC. I worked with the White House to make sure that FEMA provided a grant to a local organization that is providing services to folks. I fear that they’re being tricked into nationwide bus trips when their final destinations are places all over the United States of America,” Bowser maintained.

When a second bus of about 40 immigrants arrived at New York City’s Port Authority, Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference.

“This is horrific when you think about what the governor is doing,” Adams said, noting that many of those on the bus didn’t even know they were being transported to New York. “We’re finding that some of the families are on the bus that wanted to go to other locations, and they were not allowed to do so. They were forced on the bus with the understanding that they were going to other locations that they wanted to go to, and when they tried to explain, they were not allowed to do so.

“They’re not letting us know when the buses are leaving. They’re not letting us know what are the needs of the people on the bus,” Adams said, later adding on Twitter that Abbott was “manufacturing a crisis.” “They are not giving us any information, so we’re unable to really provide the service to people en route.”

Abbott says he sees nothing wrong with what he’s doing. He plans to bus more undocumented immigrants across the country just to make the point that the Biden Administration isn’t doing enough to close the US-Mexico border, and maintains he’s tired of Texas border towns bearing the brunt of the massive influx of refugees from countries like Mexico and Venezuela. “The busing mission provides much-needed relief to our overwhelmed border communities,” he says.

Thus far, Gov. Abbott has spent over $12 million to bus unwanted migrants out of his state, according to the Texas Division of Emergency Management.

Democratic leaders and critics like the mayors and Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke call what Gov. Abbott is doing a partisan political “stunt” whose only goal is to stick it to the Biden Administration. But Abbott’s defenders say that while what he’s doing is reprehensible, because the innocent human lives of men, women, and children are at stake, the federal government put him in that position by failing to properly manage hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who come across the US-Mexico border each year. Those migrants are being bused out of Texas free of charge only after they give their written permission, published reports say.

In North Carolina, Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth, Mecklenburg, Orange, and Wake counties are considered “sanctuary” destinations—meaning that the Texas governor could easily decide to send buses of undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers to any of these counties in our state.