The hypocrisy is glaring.
- Efforts by GOP governors in Texas and Arizona to bus illegal migrants released by DHS in their states to northern - and largely Democratic-controlled - cities have been a hot topic for the last few months
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced on April 6 that he would offer released migrants bus rides to Washington, D.C., and Chicago
- By late July, around 3,500 migrants had been transported to the National Capital area by the two states
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) sought federal assistance in dealing with migrants in his city, as well
- The Texas Tribune reported that by October 7, the Texas Tribune had sent more than 10,000 migrants to the three cities by the Lone Star State
Illinois
- Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has issued an emergency proclamation allowing him to tap National Guard members to help coordinate logistics and fast-track housing for the migrants
- Cook County, home to the city of Chicago, has asked for federal aid to handle its migrants
The Wrong Target
- D.C. is experiencing a fraction of the disastrous impact the border crisis has caused Texas.
- All three mayors and an untold number of other state and local officials likely have the wrong target, because again, as the Times' reported, the Biden administration's migrant transportation scheme puts the governors' program to shame.
GAO's numbers only include FMUs (migrant adults with accompanying children)
- There are no figures for the single adults who were released under the two programs.
- Aliens in FMUs, however, account for just less than 42 percent of all illegal migrants encountered by CBP at the Southwest border and processed for removal since February 2021.
The Federal Response
- The White House has ditched deterrence as a border strategy, opting instead to craft out of whole cloth "safe, orderly, and legal pathways for individuals to be able to access our legal system" - that is, to apply for asylum, regardless of the strength of those migrants' claims or even whether they came seeking asylum at all.
- This is already having real-world, detrimental effects on the cities to which migrants are headed.
The Times quotes Ducey spokesman C.J. Karamargin as saying, "This seems to be a case of 'do as I say, not as I do.'"
- No apologies needed - that's exactly what's happening, and the administration's hypocrisy is glaring
https://cis.org/Arthur/Biden-Administration-Floods-Cities-Released-Migrants
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