Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday vowed that he would continue to bus migrants out of the Lone Star State “until we get a new president.”
Abbott, 66, explained the origins of the busing program and why he decided to send more than 40,000 migrants to New York City — which he claimed wasn’t initially part of the plan — in a speech at the New York Republican Party’s annual gala in Manhattan.
The governor said he decided to start busing migrants out of Texas after local officials expressed concern with the number of migrants that were being apprehended at the border only to be dropped off in their communities by federal authorities.
“Texas is ground zero for the broken border policy imposed by Joe Biden,” Abbott said.
“You know, the chaos that we’ve seen across the entire country — it seems like it’s been going on for so long that we can so easily forget that it was just four years ago that we had the lowest illegal border crossings in 45 years,” he added, praising Trump for implementing “Remain in Mexico” and Title 42, eliminating “catch and release” and building more walls along the US border with Mexico.
Abbott noted that the Biden administration has phased out all those measures, leading to “the equivalent of the entirety of the population of New York City” to illegally enter the US in the last three years.