Gov. Greg Abbott asks Texans to donate their own money for a program that transports migrants to Washington, D.C., by charter bus.
. “Word will be passed from community to community that if you can just get to Texas, the Governor there will pay for your transportation anywhere in the USA.”
He clarified later that the bus trips would be entirely voluntary for migrants after they had been processed by U.S. immigration officials,Abbott’s office did not respond to multiple questions about the policy, including why the governor is now asking for private donations, if the plan will be partially or solely funded by private donations and how much the busing program has cost so far.
Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University, said the governor may be trying to escape blowback. During the 30-some-hour coach bus ride, passengers were provided with meals, the migrants said. Many of the buses’ passengers said they had saved up thousands of dollars just to arrive at the border and had little money left by the time they arrived in Texas.
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