Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said the White House is “full of a bunch of hypocrites, led by the Hypocrite who flew truckloads of immigrants across the country and many times in the dead of night.” The statement comes hours after the White House said Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis’ use of immigrants to punish Democratic-led state and local government leaders was a “deeply troubling” ploy that put innocent children at risk. score political points. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the two governors are disrupting the federal process for handling immigrants and using immigrants as “political pawns.” Earlier on Thursday, Mr Abbott had sent two buses carrying migrants to the doorstep of Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in Washington. Meanwhile, Mr. DeSantis repeated his unannounced decision to send two planes of 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. “The moment even a small fraction of what these border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, all of a sudden they go crazy … it just goes to show you, you know, their badge of virtue is a scam,” he said Thursday. .
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ICYMI: Texas spent more than $12 million transporting immigrants to New York and DC, documents show
The price of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s highly politicized campaign to send migrants arriving at the southern border to Washington, D.C. and New York has cost the state $12 million, CNN reported. Since the Republican governor announced the costly program in April, the Lone Star State has reportedly awarded $12,707,720.92 to Wynne Transportation, the charter service tasked with ferrying newly arrived immigrants to sanctuary cities. CNN revealed the evidence for the controversial effort, once described as a “hijacking” by critics, by filing a freedom of information request with the Texas Department of Emergency Management. The agency later confirmed that the state had spent $12 million on the program from its inception through Aug. 9. Governor Abbott began busing undocumented immigrants to the nation’s capital in April. He reiterated his pledge to upset politicians critical of his border policies, expanding that effort to New York in August. Read the full report from The Independent’s Johanna Chisholm below:
Texas spent more than $12 million transporting immigrants to New York and D.C., documents show
The buses have taken somewhere between 8,051 and 9,033 migrants north, meaning each ticket will cost about $1,400 per person Graeme Massie16 September 2022 08:03 1663308262
Tucker Carlson called for immigrants to be sent to Martha’s Vineyard two months ago, he reports
ICYMI: Months before Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis shot down two planes carrying immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard without notifying officials, Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson took to his platform to describe a plan that bore eerily similar parallels to which was now executed by the governor. “Joe Biden took 70 percent of the vote on this little island in Massachusetts,” he began on his show on July 26, as Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, pointed out on Twitter. “As you can imagine, Edgartown is quite different,” he added, referring to the town on Martha’s Vineyard where the Obamas have an estate. “Edgartown is 95.7 percent white,” he said in surprise. “They are looking for more diversity. Why not send immigrants there, in huge numbers?” he suggested, stating that he would start with 300,000 and go up from there as the island got “stronger”. Graeme Massie16 September 2022 07:04 1663304932
DeSantis boasts of Martha’s Vineyard’s ‘innovative’ tenure, calls residents ‘virtue-signalling frauds’
ICYMI: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t shy away from bragging about his plan to send two planes full of 50 Venezuelan immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in his first public remarks since Wednesday’s unannounced trip. “We take what’s happening on the southern border very seriously — unlike some, and unlike the president of the United States, who has refused to lift a finger to secure that border,” the governor said Thursday. “If you have people who tend to think that Florida is a good place, our message to them is that we’re not a sanctuary state and we’re better off being able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. And yes, we will help facilitate that transfer so you can go to greener pastures,” he said in his four-and-a-half minute answer to the question. “All these people in DC and New York were beating their chests when Trump was president saying they were so proud to be sanctuary jurisdictions, saying how bad it was to have secure borders. The minute, even a tiny fraction of what these border towns do When the everyday is brought to their front door, all of a sudden they go crazy and they’re so upset that this is happening and it just goes to show you, you know their badge of virtue is a scam.” Graeme Massie16 September 2022 06:08 1663302651
Texas governor’s office says White House ‘full of hypocrites’ led by ‘Hypocrite’
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office hit back after the White House said Republican governors sending busloads of immigrants was “deeply troubling” and called it an “illegal stunt.” In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mr Abbott’s spokeswoman Renae Eze said: “The White House is full of a bunch of hypocrites, led by the Hypocrite who has been flying boatloads of immigrants across the country and on the front page many times. of the night.” “Instead of their hypocritical complaints about Texas providing much-needed relief to our overwhelmed and overwhelmed border communities, President Biden and the Border Czar should be doing their jobs to secure the border — which they continue to fail to do,” he added. . Busloads of migrants sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrive outside the vice president’s residence in Washington, DC (Snapshot / Fox News) Sravasti Dasgupta16 September 2022 05:30 1663300912
Migrants on flights from Florida told they would go to Boston, report says
ICYMI: The 50 or so migrants who boarded two planes from Florida were reportedly told they were headed to Boston, not Martha’s Vineyard, where they crashed Wednesday afternoon. However, some migrants told NPR that their flight originated in San Antonio and were being transferred to Boston. NPR reported that a plane that originally started its journey in San Antonio made two flights, one to Florida and then another to South Carolina, before flying to Martha’s Vineyard and landing at 3:15 p.m. local time. Other than that brief stay, the news outlet reported, the immigrants interviewed by NPR had not spent time in Florida. According to some of the people interviewed by NPR Wednesday night, they were initially approached by a woman who identified herself as “Perla.” This woman came to the group, who were staying at a shelter in San Antonio, and lured them onto the plane, claiming it would land in Boston where they could get “expedited work papers.” Those migrants said the woman was still trying to recruit passengers for the flight hours before it took off from the southern state. Graeme Massie16 September 2022 05:01 1663297672
ICYMI: Ron DeSantis signs bill aimed at keeping immigrants out of state
In June, Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis signed a controversial bill that critics say aims to keep immigrants out of the Sunshine State, and activists say will seek to unfairly and illegally target immigrant communities. Governor DeSantis, who is running for re-election in the fall and is widely considered a 2024 presidential candidate, has been a vocal critic of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. As outlined in the legislation, all government agencies would be prohibited from doing business with transportation companies that bring immigrants into the state who are in the country illegally. The bill also further blurs the line between local matters and federal control by requiring each law enforcement agency operating a detention county to enter into an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That agreement would require all local law enforcement officers to use their resources to perform federal ICE duties, the bill states. Read more about the bill in The Independent below: Graeme Massie16 September 2022 04:07 1663293922
Trump calls the US a “dumping ground” for immigrants in a radio interview
ICYMI: Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked former President Donald Trump Thursday about how he viewed the country’s current immigration policies, given recent developments that have seen two Republican governors send immigrants from their state to what it has been criticized as a political stunt. “They’re trying to call attention to the lie that the vice president told last weekend when she said not once but twice: the border is secure,” the radio host began before asking: “How big of an issue is this and how big of an issue is it going to be? in 2024?”. Democrats, as the one-term president began, are all about “disinformation.” “They’re going to look at the border where millions of people are pouring out of prisons,” he said, before calling the US a “dumping ground” that Democrats, he argued, would say is “safe.” “They’re lying about the border, they’re lying about inflation, they’re lying about our country because our country is being poisoned from the inside,” he closed before noting that he hopes Republicans do well in the upcoming midterm elections in November. Graeme Massie16 September 2022 03:05 1663290292
