Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is stepping on the gas in his busing campaign, shipping another 10,000 migrants to the big Democrat-led cities in just the last two weeks.
Eighteen months after the first bus arrived outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Mr. Abbott’s campaign has reshaped the immigration debate, delivering the pain of the Biden border surge to communities that had previously been insulated.
The Republican governor has dubbed his efforts Operation Lone Star, and it has made him the chief foil to President Biden, who Mr. Abbott says has imposed policies that have transformed the border from relative calm under the past administration to more chaotic than it’s been in a century. “Now those poor people are parked in front of their house, and that’s the big change. Because as long as you didn’t see it, you didn’t care,” he said.
Mr. Abbott picked sanctuary cities, whose policies prevent cooperation with federal immigration authorities, to make a statement. Initially the sanctuary cities talked a good game, saying they would show Texas how to welcome “asylum seekers.”The cities still gripe about Texas, but now they also complain about Mr. Biden — which was Mr. Abbott’s goal. And the reason is obvious — New York says it has welcomed some 125,000 migrants since last spring, only 20,000 of them by way of Texas’ buses.
The governor’s office says that’s a service to the whole country because those drugs otherwise would have spread throughout the nation.
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