Two volunteers campaigning for Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott were reportedly attacked on Saturday by a man who damaged their car.
The incident, which occurred near Houston in Humble, Texas, involved an unidentified man allegedly chasing the volunteers through a neighborhood and trying to drag them out of their car. The man allegedly struck both side view mirrors before police were called and responded at the scene.
In a statement released from Texans for Greg Abbott, police reportedly took the suspect into custody and charged him with criminal mischief.
“Political violence is never acceptable. With just over a month until Election Day, the passion to win should never bubble over into something more dangerous. There is no place for this in Texas,” <a href="https://www.gregabbott.com/texans-for-greg-abbott-statement-on-political-violence-in-houston-area/">said</a> Mark Miner, Abbott&#8217;s communications director.
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Political violence is never acceptable. With just over a month until Election Day, the passion to win should never bubble over into something more dangerous.
There is no place for this in Texas.
Full statement on political violence in Houston area: <a href="https://t.co/24qcoGvEic">https://t.co/24qcoGvEic</a> <a href="https://t.co/cvpLCD98z5">pic.twitter.com/cvpLCD98z5</a>
&mdash; Texans for Abbott (@AbbottCampaign) <a href="https://twitter.com/AbbottCampaign/status/1574109203769294850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Images of the damaged vehicle were also posted alongside the release on Sunday.
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Abbott is currently seeking re-election in the Lone Star State against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/governor/tx/texas-governor-abbott-vs-orourke-7376.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Real Clear Politics</a> shows the governor leading by an average of 7.5 points.
At a political event last month, O&#8217;Rourke refused to back any limits on abortion, including partial-birth abortion. The former presidential candidate has also pushed for gun violence reform after the May Uvalde school shooting.
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Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke refuses to back any limits on abortion, including partial-birth abortion. <a href="https://t.co/NXK7GHZQfb">pic.twitter.com/NXK7GHZQfb</a>
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O&#8217;Rourke has also supported his party&#8217;s open border policies that have led to record levels of migrants crossing the southern border since President Joe Biden entered office.
During a June event, O&#8217;Rourke received <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beto-orourke-i-think-the-border-is-pretty-great-right-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strong criticism</a> after his claim that the border is &#8220;great.&#8221;
“And we all agree that we want the border to be better. In fact, I think the border is pretty great right now,&#8221; he answered in response to a question.
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Texas Democrat Beto O&#39;Rourke: &quot;I think the border&#39;s pretty great right now.&quot;
Biden&#39;s border crisis is the worst on record. <a href="https://t.co/EbFTKzZdUi">pic.twitter.com/EbFTKzZdUi</a>
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Abbott has focused his campaign on increasing border security, emphasizing his Operation Lone Star. In May, he <a href="http://www.tidc.texas.gov/operation-lone-star/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a disaster declaration that now covers 48 counties, mainly including those along or near the border.
The governor has also made national headlines for busing migrants who have entered Texas to Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago. More than 11,000 migrants have been transported from the state since April.
On September 15, Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-migrant-bus-arrivals-at-border-czar-harris-residence-in-washington-d.c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that two buses of migrants were sent outside of the U.S. Naval Observatory near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.
&#8220;The Biden-Harris Administration continues ignoring and denying the historic crisis at our southern border, which has endangered and overwhelmed Texas communities for almost two years,&#8221; Abbott said in a statement. &#8220;Our supposed Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has yet to even visit the border to see firsthand the impact of the open border policies she has helped implement, even going so far as to claim the border is ‘secure.’”

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) unloaded on Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hakeem-jeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (D-NY), chairman of the House Democrats, for claiming on Tuesday that he and Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) were &#8220;behaving like human traffickers.&#8221;
Jeffries&#8217; remarks came after DeSantis ignited a national media firestorm last week when he sent 50 illegal immigrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, a rich liberal enclave off the coast of Massachusetts.
&#8220;The behavior of individuals like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott is radical, reckless, regressive and reprehensible,&#8221; Jeffries claimed during a press conference. &#8220;They should start behaving like governors and stop behaving like human traffickers. They are putting politics over people in the most egregious way possible.&#8221;
DeSantis fired back during a press conference Tuesday afternoon, saying, &#8220;When Biden is flying these people all over the fruited plain in the middle of the night, I didn&#8217;t hear a peep out of those people.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t hear a peep,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t heard a peep about all the people that have been told by Biden you can just come in, and they&#8217;re going, they&#8217;re being abused by the cartels, they’re drowning in the Rio Grande. You had 50 that died in some shed in Texas. I heard no outrage about any of that. I haven&#8217;t heard outrage about all the fentanyl that&#8217;s come across the border that&#8217;s killing Americans in record numbers. I don&#8217;t hear outrage about the criminal aliens that have gotten through and have then victimized people — not only in Florida, but all throughout the country. I didn&#8217;t hear any outrage about that. The only thing I hear them getting upset about is you have 50 that end up in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, then they get really upset.&#8221;
&#8220;And I&#8217;m sorry, those migrants were being treated horribly by Biden,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;They were hungry, homeless, they had no opportunity at all. State of Florida, it was volunteer, offered transport to sanctuary jurisdictions, because it&#8217;s our view that one, the border should be secured. And we want to have Biden reinstitute policies like Remain in Mexico and making sure that people aren&#8217;t overwhelming. But short of that, if you believe in open borders, then it&#8217;s the sanctuary jurisdictions that should have to bear the brunt of the open borders — so that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing. But what happened was, they were they were provided an ability to be in the most posh sanctuary jurisdiction maybe in the world.&#8221;
&#8220;And obviously, it&#8217;s sad that Martha&#8217;s Vineyard people deported them the next day; they could have absorbed this, they chose not to,&#8221; DeSantis added. &#8220;But what it shows is, if 50 was a burden on one of the richest places in our country, what about all these other communities that have been overrun with hundreds or thousands?&#8221;
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Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins fired back at the suggestion that the network had coordinated with Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/brilliant-political-strategy-former-ny-dem-governor-praises-greg-abbott-sending-illegals-to-nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> (R-TX) to capture footage of illegal migrants being dropped off outside Vice President <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/texas-drops-more-illegal-immigrants-including-infant-off-at-vice-president-kamala-harriss-doorstep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris&#8217;</a> residence last week.
Jenkins, who has been an integral part of the network&#8217;s coverage, told &#8220;MediaBuzz&#8221; host Howard Kurtz that it was &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; to suggest that he had coordinated anything with Abbott ahead of the story.
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Jenkins also noted that small border towns were still being overwhelmed by the crisis — &quot;But yet 50 drop in the tiny island paradise of Martha’s Vineyard, and the tiny island paradise is brought to its knees? There’s a double standard there.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/T3L6IKeTrg">pic.twitter.com/T3L6IKeTrg</a>
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Kurtz began the segment with a few clips of the coverage showing migrants being dropped off outside Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; official residence — on orders from Governor Abbott — and two plane loads of migrants landing in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, courtesy of Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/desantis-hammers-biden-for-scrambling-to-respond-to-marthas-vineyard-but-not-to-these-crises/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R-FL).
&#8220;Some critics said it looked like collusion,&#8221; Kurtz said, turning to Jenkins for a response.
&#8220;That&#8217;s ridiculous. We did not coordinate nor would we coordinate,&#8221; Jenkins fired back, noting that there had been an official press release that was sent out to multiple news organizations, embargoed until the migrants were scheduled to arrive.
&#8220;We did not have much details,&#8221; Jenkins continued, going on to point out the fact that other news organizations had also been on the scene when the migrants began to disembark. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a charge that holds no water.&#8221;
&#8220;CNN and MSNBC immediately sent reporters to Martha’s Vineyard,&#8221; Kurtz continued. &#8220;President Biden said this is playing politics with human beings, reckless and unAmerican. Many pundits are criticizing it as well.&#8221;
Jenkins pushed back, noting that he had been covering the U.S.-Mexico border for years — and that his goal had always been to shed light on the crisis there. &#8220;I even went to the Panamanian jungle —&#8221;
Kurtz asked how that coverage related to the current concern — namely the migrants who were being hand-delivered by Republican governors to self-proclaimed sanctuary cities and states — and Jenkins said that the governors were only trying to drive an important message home.
&#8220;Del Rio has a population of 35,000. They had 50,000 migrants come there in July,&#8221; Jenkins explained. He later added, &#8220;In one case, the city of El Paso sending nearly 2,000 migrants on 50 buses to New York, there’s no criticism there. But yet 50 drop in the tiny island paradise of Martha’s Vineyard, and the tiny island paradise is brought to its knees? There’s a double standard there.&#8221;

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Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said that Republican governors are sending a message about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a> by transporting migrants to sanctuary cities.
Appearing on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/09/18/gop-sen-mike-rounds-response-migrants-sent-to-north-sotu-tapper-vpx.cnn">CNN</a>&#8216;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; Sunday, Rounds said that Florida Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) and Texas Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> (R) are &#8220;doing their best&#8221; to deal with the influx of migrants at the southern border by using buses to draw attention to the problem. Rounds said his own state, 1200 miles away, is dealing with the consequences of illegal immigration, so the governors are doing what they can to emphasize unlawful crossings and the Biden administration&#8217;s lack of action.
&#8220;[DeSantis and Abbott are] doing their best to try to send a message to the rest of the nation about the plight of those individuals that are coming from south of the border,&#8221; Rounds told host Jake Tapper. &#8220;You’re talking about 3.4 million people just since the start of this Biden Administration that have crossed the border. They’re coming into southern states. What is a governor supposed to do?&#8221;
&#8220;They’re trying to send a message to the rest of the country that this is not acceptable, and that their states can’t handle that type of an inflow,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That’s an equivalent of four times the population of my state of South Dakota. But Jake, it’s more than that. It’s also everything else come across the border at the same time. We’re 1200 miles away from the border in South Dakota, yet the drug trafficking affects our state as well. Our Native American population, reservations have got huge inflows of drug trafficking coming into our state, into some of the heaviest poverty areas of the entire country. It’s affecting the states but the administration isn’t doing anything about it.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-abbott-to-the-biden-admin-if-they-will-not-go-to-the-border-were-taking-the-border-to-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abbott</a> said in an interview on Friday with Fox News that he began the busing initiative for the express purpose of bringing the border crisis directly to the Biden administration.
“We have small communities of about 25,000 people who have thousands of illegal immigrants dumped into their community,” said Abbott. “And so, they were begging for relief. And that’s exactly why we began this busing operation to Washington, D.C.”
“And so, if [the Biden administration] will not go to the border, we’re taking the border to them so they can see the challenges they’re opposing to the entire United States of America,&#8221; he added.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-hammers-biden-for-scrambling-to-respond-to-marthas-vineyard-but-not-to-these-crises" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis</a> pinned the blame squarely on the Biden administration&#8217;s failure to enforce the law at the border. “This is a massive policy failure by the president,&#8221; DeSantis said Friday. &#8220;This is a massive and intentional policy that is causing huge amount of damage all across the country. And it’s all rooted in a failure to take care that the laws are faithfully executed and to fulfill his oath of office.&#8221;
DeSantis added that his decision to fly 50 illegal migrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard prompted more coverage from legacy media reporters than “have ever gone down to the southern border to look what’s going on.”

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GOP Senator: DeSantis, Abbott: ‘Trying To Send A Message’ About The Border Crisis To The Rest Of The Country

GOP Senator: DeSantis, Abbot: 'Trying To Send A Message' About The Border Crisis To The Rest Of The Country

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Republican governors of violating &#8220;every basic standard of decency&#8221; by transporting migrants to sanctuary cities.
Appearing on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-durbin-desantis-martha-s-vineyard-move-pathetic-migrants-are-being-exploited-148704837977">Meet the Press</a>&#8221; Sunday, Durbin railed against recent moves by Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to relocate illegal immigrants from their states to heavily Democratic cities and Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. While he did not know whether the governors had broken laws, Durbin attacked DeSantis and Abbott for &#8220;jeopardizing&#8221; the migrants&#8217; ability to remain in the country and allegedly breaking up families.
&#8220;It is pathetic that these governors are taking advantage of these helpless people, making promises to them to &#8216;get on the bus and life is just gonna be fine,&#8217; and off they go to places far removed from where they are supposed to be appearing under the requirements of our law in a matter of weeks and months,&#8221; Durbin said. &#8220;So [they are] jeopardizing their stay in the United States when each governor makes this decision.&#8221;
&#8220;[W]hy is it that when the Republicans want to enforce their immigration theories, it&#8217;s always the kids that end up being the victims?&#8221; said Durbin. &#8220;[O]nce again it&#8217;s the kids and families that are put on these buses and transported for political purposes across the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if laws were specifically broken, but they have broken every basic standard of decency when it comes to dealing with children and families,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t think that, when you get down to the basic rules of politics, this passes the smell test.&#8221;
Democrats have been in an uproar over the two governors sending buses and planeloads of migrants to Democratic-run sanctuary cities like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-mayor-calls-for-national-guard-to-deal-with-influx-of-illegal-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.,</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lori-lightfoot-calls-greg-abbott-a-racist-for-sending-illegal-immigrants-to-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-horrific-nyc-mayor-slams-texas-for-sending-illegal-aliens-to-big-apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a>, and most recently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ron-desantis-flies-planes-full-of-illegal-immigrants-to-marthas-vineyard-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha&#8217;s Vineyard</a>. However, they have not criticized leaders in Democrat-controlled El Paso, Texas, which has sent nearly 30 buses full of illegal immigrants to New York in the last month and are seeking reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the costs.
DeSantis and Abbott fired back at critics in recent days. &#8220;[A]ll of those people in D.C. 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 a secure border, the minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk and they’re so upset that this is happening,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-virtue-signaling-is-a-fraud-desantis-drags-leftists-attacking-him-for-sending-illegal-immigrants-to-sanctuary-cities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeSantis</a> said at a press conference Thursday. &#8220;It just shows you their virtue-signaling is a fraud.”
“We have small communities of about 25,000 people who have thousands of illegal immigrants dumped into their community,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-abbott-to-the-biden-admin-if-they-will-not-go-to-the-border-were-taking-the-border-to-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abbott</a> added in an interview with Fox News Friday. “And so, they were begging for relief. And that’s exactly why we began this busing operation to Washington, D.C.” Abbott also took aim at the Biden administration for failing to secure the border. &#8220;[I]f they will not go to the border, we’re taking the border to them so they can see the challenges they’re opposing to the entire United States of America,&#8221; he said.
The Biden administration has been busing and flying illegal immigrants who are awaiting asylum or deportation hearings to locations around the country for more than a year, the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-sanctuary-cities-the-border-crisis-arrives-by-bus-abbott-desantis-texas-marthas-vineyard-asylum-housing-title-42-washington-encounters-11663335794">Wall Street Journal</a> noted Friday.
Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

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Dick Durbin Attacks GOP Governors Over Transporting Migrants To Democrat Cities: ‘Broken Every Basic Standard Of Decency’

Dick Durbin Attacks GOP Governors Over Transporting Migrants To Democrat Cities: 'Broken Every Basic Standard Of Decency'

Dick Durbin

Sanctuary Cities

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) urged Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) and Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> (R) to send illegal immigrants to three new liberal areas after DeSantis&#8217; move to send illegal immigrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard this week dominated national news.
Cruz pressed the governors to send illegal immigrants to Nantucket, Massachusetts; Palo Alto, California; and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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Rehoboth Beach, Delaware next.<a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GregAbbott_TX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a>
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Palo Alto, CA next.<a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GregAbbott_TX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a>
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Nantucket next.<a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GregAbbott_TX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1570825705193340930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cruz introduced the <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/20211019_stopthesurge.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stop the SURGE Act</a> last year to force Democrat President Joe Biden to establish 13 new ports of entry in communities across the country and mandate that all illegal aliens encountered at Border Patrol Sectors in Texas be transferred to these new ports for processing.
The 13 new ports of entry would be in liberal areas, including Block Island, Rhode Island; Greenwich, Connecticut; Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Governors Island, New York; Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; Scarsdale, New York; Palo Alto, California; Yountville, California; St. Helena, California; and North Hero, Vermont.
&#8220;I am introducing this crucial legislation to alleviate the massive overload at the southern border by establishing new ports of entry in Democrat-led communities such as North Hero, Vermont, where Bernie Sanders spends his summers, and Martha’s Vineyard, where Democrat elites host their cocktail parties,&#8221; Cruz said at the time. &#8220;If Washington Democrats had to endure even a fraction of the suffering South Texas families, farmers, ranchers, and small businesses have had to face, our nation’s immigration laws would be enforced, the wall would be built, and the Remain in Mexico policy would be re-implemented.&#8221;
&#8220;My Democrat colleagues have hosted hearing after hearing on amnesty and federalizing elections while completely ignoring the crisis at our southern border,&#8221; Cruz added. &#8220;From my time this year on the ground in Laredo and Del Rio, it is abundantly clear that President Biden has all but abandoned our border patrol agents and processing facilities, and left Texas communities to fend for themselves. President Biden and Democrats need to step up to defend our southern border and support our heroic Customs and Border Protection officials.&#8221;
Cruz said this week during an interview on Fox News that DeSantis sending the 50 illegal immigrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard exposed the political Left as being &#8220;screaming hypocrites.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, the Democrats did not think it was a humanitarian crisis when we pulled over 50 bodies in body bags out of a truck in Texas of illegal immigrants who died because the smugglers let them die of heat exposure,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And yet, suddenly 50 illegal immigrants show up in lily white Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, where rich liberals and billionaires sip Chardonnay, and it is, it is World War III.&#8221;

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Ted Cruz Urges DeSantis, Abbott To Send Illegal Immigrants To 3 New Liberal Spots

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Washington D.C. Democrat Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-caught-violating-own-rules-on-first-day-of-new-mask-mandate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Muriel Bowser</a> complained Friday that the nation’s capital is not equipped for the influx of migrants being sent by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brilliant-political-strategy-former-ny-dem-governor-praises-greg-abbott-sending-illegals-to-nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">red-state governors</a> fed up with the porous Mexican border.
The Democrat mayor spoke days after two buses Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott sent from Del Rio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-buses-sent-by-texas-drop-migrants-off-in-front-of-vp-kamala-harris-residence">dropped off 100 migrants</a> in front of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-buses-sent-by-texas-drop-migrants-off-in-front-of-vp-kamala-harris-residence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s</a> official residence at the Naval Observatory. Abbott and fellow GOP chief executives Ron DeSantis, of Florida, and Doug Ducey, of Arizona, have stepped up their efforts to bring the border crisis to blue states and cities.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not a border town,” Bowser told reporters Friday. “We don&#8217;t have an infrastructure to handle this type of and level of immigration to our city &#8230; We&#8217;re not Texas.&#8221;
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Bowser did vow to build an &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; to help her city absorb migrants, but in the meantime, said D.C. can&#8217;t handle the newcomers. Twitter users roasted Bowser, who in 2018 <a href="https://twitter.com/SatcomGod13/status/1571118389971783680?s=20&amp;t=sjQQ17l3fIIcyjNWuKpBgw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared Washington, D.C., a sanctuary city</a> for illegal immigrants.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve claimed to be a sanctuary city for years, and you&#8217;re just NOW planning on infrastructure to support that effort?&#8221; wrote one Twitter commenter. &#8220;And you think immigration is a Texas problem? SMH&#8221;
&#8220;What kind of “infrastructure“ does she think exists in Texas?&#8221; asked another person on Twitter.
&#8220;Funny how it&#8217;s not a problem till it comes knocking on her door, then suddenly her city is all kind of excuses why not to deal with that problem,&#8221; wrote another. &#8220;Lame excuses, really. Hypocrite much?&#8221;
More than 2 million migrants have crossed the border into the U.S. since President Joe Biden took office and rescinded many of the Trump administration’s border security measures. The Texas governor says his state’s border towns have been flooded with migrants, and sending them to jurisdictions that support the Biden administration’s lax border policies is only sensible.
According to Abbott’s office, more than 7,700 migrants have been dropped off in Washington and more than 2,100 in New York since April. The state has spent an estimated $12 million chartering the buses.
“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans — and Americans — at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said last month. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C., and New York City as an additional drop-off location.”
In addition to Bowser, other Democrat leaders, including Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and New York Mayor Eric Adams, who have all supported the administration’s border policies, have decried the busing tactic and said their cities and states cannot absorb the influx of migrants.
The red-state tactic exploded into the national spotlight early Thursday, when planes sent by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose state has seen thousands of migrants dropped off by the Biden administration, brought 50 illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. The island, mostly populated by wealthy liberals, was unwilling to absorb the migrants and sent them off to a military base the next day.
Bowser last week declared a public emergency over the previous arrival of buses from Texas and Arizona. She has sought help from the National Guard in dealing with the problem but has been denied twice by the Department of Defense.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser And Law Enforcement Officials Brief Media On Security Plan For State Of The Union

Keep Them In Texas? DC Mayor Roasted For Tone-Deaf Migrant Gripe

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Complains City Can't Handle Migrant Influx

Muriel Bowser

Washington D.C.

Texas Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> said during an interview Friday that if the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> was unwilling to come to the U.S.-Mexico border to see the crisis that has erupted under Democrat President Joe Biden&#8217;s leadership, he will bring the border crisis to their front door.
Abbott told Fox News that the state of Texas was shipping illegal immigrants to Democrat-controlled areas to &#8220;relieve the burden that our local communities are facing along the border.&#8221;
&#8220;We have small communities of about 25,000 people who have thousands of illegal immigrants dumped into their community,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so, they were begging for relief. And that&#8217;s exactly why we began this busing operation to Washington, D.C.&#8221;
&#8220;Plus, we have a president who has refused to go see the chaos that he&#8217;s created on the border, and a border czar, Kamala Harris, who&#8217;s refused to see what&#8217;s going on on the border,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And so, if they will not go to the border, we&#8217;re taking the border to them so they can see the challenges they&#8217;re opposing to the entire United States of America. One last fact that&#8217;s very important, and that is this year, more than two million people will cross the border illegally. They need to deal with those consequences, as well as the result of what the United Nations said, and that is the U.S.-Mexico border is the deadliest land crossing in the world.&#8221;
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Greg abbott: &quot;If they will not go to the border, we are taking the border to them.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BGu5CuCc0f">pic.twitter.com/BGu5CuCc0f</a>
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Abbott later said that Republican governors will &#8220;expand&#8221; their operations of shipping illegal immigrants to Democrat-controlled areas by increasing the volume of illegal immigrants that they send to the cities where they are currently being sent.
When asked by host Bill Hemmer whether he had &#8220;a plan to stop this process at the moment,&#8221; Abbott responded, &#8220;Yeah, we do have a plan to stop this process.&#8221;
&#8220;And the plan begins with the Biden administration finally securing the border,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;Remember this? It was just two years ago we had the fewest border crossings in decades because the Trump administration was enforcing the immigration laws.&#8221;
&#8220;All Biden has to do is replicate what Trump did, and that would lead to a reduction in border crossings, and that would lead to the elimination of us busing people to regions across the country,&#8221; Abbott added.
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Governor Abbott To The Biden Admin: ‘If They Will Not Go To The Border, We’re Taking The Border To Them’

Governor Abbott Tells Biden Admin He Will Bring ‘Border To Them’

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NOW things are getting interesting.
A couple of Republican governors, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/their-virtue-signaling-is-a-fraud-desantis-drags-leftists-attacking-him-for-sending-illegal-immigrants-to-sanctuary-cities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida&#8217;s Ron DeSantis</a> and Texas&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brilliant-political-strategy-former-ny-dem-governor-praises-greg-abbott-sending-illegals-to-nyc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a>, sparked a wildfire of fury and controversy on Thursday when they dispatched illegal aliens who came across the southern border — with the federal government looking the other way — to a pair of high-profile spots: The vice president&#8217;s residence in Washington, D.C., and Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.
For the record, Abbott has been dealing with this problem for months. And DeSantis has, too, as the Biden administration continues to dump undocumented foreigners all over the country, including Florida. Both became so fed up they decided to send the illegals to the most liberal places they could find.
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This sign is in Martha&#39;s Vineyard. Note that they &quot;Stand with immigrants, with refugees,&quot; etc.
What happened to their solidarity? <a href="https://t.co/ZoaFGpCzUb">pic.twitter.com/ZoaFGpCzUb</a>
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DeSantis loaded up a couple of planes and flew them to the tiny island of Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, packed with 1 percenter liberals (the Obamas have a multi-million-dollar oceanside mansion there). Known among the locals as &#8220;The Vineyard,&#8221; the harbor towns are home to only about 15,000 people — and you can bet that not many of them look like the migrants who got off the planes.
Meanwhile, Abbott loaded up a few buses and moved his migrants across the country — dropping them off right in the front yard of Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; mansion. Harris famously declared last Sunday on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; that the border was &#8220;secure,&#8221; but what the illegals (their word, not mine) told reporters was truly remarkable.
&#8220;It is open, not closed. The border is open,&#8221; one man who was among the 100 or so foreigners dropped off by two buses said to <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/2-buses-of-migrants-arrive-outside-vp-harriss-residence-in-dc-fox-news">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;Everybody believes that the border is open,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is open because we enter. We come in free, no problem. We came illegally, not legally.&#8221;
Boom. Open. Not secure. Harris was proven wrong in just five days — and we&#8217;ve got the truth from a man who just crossed the border illegally and ended up on her doorstep.
The usually tongue-tied White House spokesman, Karine Jean-Pierre, had clearly whipped up some talking points, which she pathetically repeated over and over as reporters finally did their job to try to get to the bottom of the story.
&#8220;So, you know, it’s the latest stunt from the governor,&#8221; she said of Abbott. &#8220;Another stunt of busing desperate migrants across the country. And he’s using them as a political — as a political ploy. I mean, this is what he’s been doing and it’s shameful. And I’ve said this before.&#8221; Then she said it again and again.
But the scene on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard was even more delicious. The woke liberal zillionaires there often post yard signs that say &#8220;we stand with immigrants &#8230; all are welcome here.&#8221; But there was complete chaos once they actually showed up.
How hilarious was it? The island&#8217;s authorities actually declared a &#8220;humanitarian crisis&#8221; — over 50 or so illegals.
&#8220;To our Island community, here is an update on current humanitarian crisis on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard&#8230;.we thank people for their continued help,&#8221; one official posted on Twitter.
The post detailed the efforts the island was making to deal with the illegal immigrants, with the Dukes County Emergency Management Association saying officials are providing &#8220;shelter, food, and care&#8221; to them and that &#8220;a coalition of Vineyard towns, community-based, and nonprofit groups are assisting in this effort.&#8221;
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To our Island community, here is an update on current humanitarian crisis on Martha&#39;s Vineyard&#8230;.we thank people for their continued help. <a href="https://t.co/f9YRJSJPow">pic.twitter.com/f9YRJSJPow</a>
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Now step back for a second. THAT is exactly what Texas and Florida has been doing for months — years — on a far larger scale and often with little federal aid to handle what is clearly a crisis.
The hilarity was that the swank little island in Liberal Land flipped out over just 50 illegals. With just a couple buses and planes, the GOP governors had dramatically illustrated their plights — and exposed the hypocrisy of liberals who say they support migrants but then freak out when they show up on their manicured lawns.
Before the end of the day, Lisa Belcastro, coordinator for Martha’s Vineyard homeless shelter Harbor Homes, said the migrants couldn&#8217;t stay.
&#8220;The difficult challenges are, we have, at some point in time they have to move from here to somewhere else,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We cannot, we don’t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants, and we certainly don’t have housing. We’re in a housing crisis as we are on this island. And we don’t, we can’t house everyone here that lives here and work here. We don’t have housing for 50 more people.&#8221;
Well, the Obamas have 10 bedrooms and with the kids off to college are using only one.
DeSantis, the frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination should former Donald Trump not run (and perhaps even if he does), had played his hand just right — and he had a few trump cards left as the drama reached a crescendo.
&#8220;Their virtue-signaling is a fraud,&#8221; DeSantis said later in the day. &#8220;We take what is happening at 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.&#8221;
But he was just getting started, and he had a message targeted to liberals.
&#8220;If you have folks that are inclined to think Florida’s a good place, our message to them is that we are not a sanctuary state, and it’s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures,&#8221; DeSantis said.
He still had more.
&#8220;And all of those people in D.C. 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 a secure border,&#8221; DeSantis noted. &#8220;The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk and they’re so upset that this is happening. It just shows you their virtue-signaling is a fraud.&#8221;
Game, set, match.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Martha’s Vineyard Declares ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ — Over 50 Illegal Aliens!

Martha's Vineyard Declares 'Humanitarian Crisis' — Over 50 Illegal Aliens Sent By Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Karine Jean-Pierre

As many as 100 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-cheer-after-desantis-sends-illegal-immigrants-to-marthas-vineyard-time-to-pay-their-fair-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">migrants</a> from Texas were let off two buses in front of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice President Kamala Harris</a>’ official residence early Thursday, just days after she claimed the border is secure.
The incident is the latest case of red states exporting the open borders problem to the liberals they blame for causing it. It followed a similar one Wednesday night, when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-explode-after-desantis-sends-illegal-immigrants-to-marthas-vineyard-the-nazis-did-this" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida sent two planes with 50 migrants</a> to the tiny liberal playland of Martha’s Vineyard, where the Obamas own a surfside mansion.
&#8220;The border is secure,&#8221; Harris told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd on Sunday.
The buses are believed to have departed from Del Rio, Texas, and made the 1,800-mile journey to the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., where Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff live. <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-migrant-buses-arrive-outside-vice-president-kamala-harris-naval-observatory-residence-in-dc/ar-AA11Rvsu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, which was on hand as the migrants got off the bus, reported that the group included people from Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia and Mexico.
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Republican governors Greg Abbott, of Texas, Ron DeSantis, of Florida, and Doug Ducey, of Arizona have been sending migrants to blue cities and states to bring attention to the border problem. An estimated 2 million migrants have flooded into the country since President Joe Biden took office and repealed most of former President Trump’s border security policies.
&#8220;President Biden&#8217;s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans &#8212; and Americans &#8212; at risk and is overwhelming our communities,&#8221; Abbott said last month. &#8220;To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C., and New York City as an additional drop-off location.&#8221;
Abbott&#8217;s office claims more than 7,700 migrants have been dropped off in Washington and more than 2,100 in New York since April. The state has spent an estimated $12 million chartering the buses.
Democrat leaders, including Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, and New York Mayor Eric Adams, who have all supported the administration’s border policies, have decried the busing tactic and said their cities and states cannot absorb the influx of migrants.
Bowser last week declared a public emergency over the previous arrival of buses from Texas and Arizona. She has sought help from the National Guard in dealing with the problem, but has been denied twice by the Department of Defense.

Migrants Sent From Texas By Bus Dropped Off Outside Vice President Harris’ Residence

WATCH: Two Buses Sent By Texas Drop Migrants Off In Front Of VP Kamala Harris Residence

A sitting member of the Washington D.C. City Council blamed Texas and Arizona Thursday for an influx of immigrants stressing Washington’s social services.
D.C. councilwoman Brianne Nadeau pointed the finger at the two border states, both run by Republican governors, claiming they turned Washington “into a border town.”
“The governors of Texas and Arizona have created this crisis, and the federal government has not stepped up to assist the District of Columbia. So we along with our regional partners will do what we’ve always done. We’ll rise to the occasion,” Nadeau said.
Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-texas-to-start-busing-illegal-immigrants-to-washington-d-c-as-biden-scraps-trump-era-border-policy">launched</a> a program in April to bus migrants to Washington, D.C., after months of calls to President Joe Biden to strengthen border security and curb a record influx of illegal migrants crossing over the U.S. southern border. The bussing program is under Abbott’s Operations Lone Star, a Texas plan to strengthen border security as much as possible.
Governor Doug Ducey (R-AZ) <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/10/buses-sending-asylum-seekers-arizona-washington-dc-cost-80k-per-trip/">followed</a> Abbott in May, announcing Arizona’s own bussing program. Together, the two states are expected to spend tens of millions of dollars bussing illegal migrants who volunteer for the trip to deep-blue cities.
“In many ways, the governors of Texas and Arizona have turned us into a border town. We don’t know how long this will take to resolve. We don’t know how long they will continue bussing,” Nadeau said. “And so the right thing to do here is to be prepared to ensure we can greet every bus, we can get people off on the right foot, we can get them to where they want to go, and that will ultimately help them in their immigration process.”
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Texas and Arizona have sent dozens of busses containing thousands of migrants to Washington, D.C, New York City, and Chicago. Local leaders in the Democrat-run cities have complained about the strain that the migrants are placing on local social programs. The Republican governors have said that that strain is a fraction of that placed on actual border cities in their states.
The Republican governors have picked Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago because they are known as “sanctuary cities” that openly refuse to work with federal immigration authorities to deport many illegal migrants.
“President Biden&#8217;s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is overwhelming our communities,&#8221; Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-brings-national-attention-to-growing-border-crisis">said</a> in a statement last week announcing the expansion of the bussing program to Chicago. “Mayor Lightfoot loves to tout the responsibility of her city to welcome all regardless of legal status, and I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them.&#8221;
Biden’s administration has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/us/politics/asylum-biden-administration.html">allowed</a> one million migrants seeking asylum into the United States to await court hearings since the president’s term began last year. That number is in addition to hundreds of thousands of other migrants that have crossed into the U.S. illegally and were never apprehended.

Brianne Nadeau

D.C. Councilwoman Blames AZ, TX For Biden Immigration Crisis: ‘Turned Us Into A Border Town’

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Doug Ducey

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