Texas transports migrants to Los Angeles by bus.

Texas Sends Migrants to Los Angeles

“Texas just dropped off the 1st bus of migrants in Los Angeles,” Texas’s Republican governor Greg Abbott tweeted on Wednesday. “Small Texas border towns remain overrun & overwhelmed because Biden refuses to secure the border.”

The bus arrived Wednesday carrying 42 migrants, including 8 children. The migrants were taken to a welcoming center at a church, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. This move is part of the Republican governor’s efforts to alleviate the pressure on border towns and relocate migrants to areas that embrace their presence.

Abbott justified the decision by pointing out that Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city for migrants. “LA is a city migrants seek to go to,” Abbott said, “particularly now that its leaders have approved its self-declared sanctuary status.”

Abbott has collaborated with other Republican governors, such as Ron DeSantis of Florida, in relocating migrants. DeSantis recently flew migrants from New Mexico to Sacramento, which led to California governor Gavin Newsom threatening DeSantis with kidnapping charges.

“These sanctuary jurisdictions are part of the reason we have this problem, because they have endorsed and agitated for these types of open-border policies,” DeSantis said at an event in Arizona last week, referring to the “sanctuary” status promised by Newsom and other Democrats. “They have bragged that they are sanctuary jurisdictions.”

This development coincides with a report alleging that the Biden administration is “scared” of an upcoming surge in migrants. Robert Kennedy Jr., who is challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, recently highlighted the border crisis, describing it as a “humanitarian crisis” and “unsustainable.”