Texas and Arizona Send Dozens of Busses of Migrants to Washington, D.C.

Thousands of migrants were transported to the nation’s capital.

QUICK FACTS:

• Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have offered 79 state-provided busses to recently-released migrants that will take them to Washington D.C.
• Over 2,500 migrants released from Border Patrol custody after illegally migrating have taken free bus rides to the nation’s capital.
• The busses have departed from border towns across Texas and Arizona earlier as governors of both states attempt to stem the flow of illegal migrants into their state
• “These people are wanting to go somewhere else. They’re not wanting to stay in Arizona,” said Morgan Carr, spokeswoman for Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ). “From what we’re seeing, they’re all primarily [headed to] the East Coast.”

BORDER REPORT: The first group of migrants I encountered last week in Yuma, AZ were from China, Peru, Georgia, Venezuela, Cuba, and India

Only a few dozen migrants out of the ~1,500 crossing each day into the Yuma border sector are being returned under Title 42 pic.twitter.com/iqdwAX0QKH

— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) May 31, 2022

EARLIER BUS RIDES TO DC:

• More than 2,000 migrants have taken the free bus trip from Texas to Washington since Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) began the operation in mid-April.
• Arizona began bussing its uninvited migrants to the nation’s capital in mid-May and has delivered about 523 people to the East Coast since that time.

BACKGROUND:

• The bussing program is not mandatory, and the vast majority of the migrants are not from our neighbors, Mexico.
• About 69% of migrants headed to the nation’s capital were from Colombia and another 15% were Peruvians and at least eight Russian citizens departed for Washington D.C. from Arizona on Tuesday.