Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas will send migrants to Washington DC on charter buses.

[hamsterjill]

Source: KSAT-12 (local news source)

Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that Texas will provide charter buses to border communities so migrants can be sent to Washington, D.C., where the Biden administration can better deal with them.

"To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington D.C.," Abbott said."We are sending them to the United States Capitol where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border."



Read more: https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2022/04/06/gov-greg-abbott-says-texas-will-send-migrants-to-washington-dc-on-charter-buses/

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Total stunt at taxpayer dollars.

[underpants]

1. So the buses won't stop?

Or are they paying security keep everyone on the bus?

[hamsterjill]

3. The article indicates that the occupants of the buses will be dropped off at the Capitol.

Sheesh! Abbott is an attention whore!

[underpants]

13. I meant - no stops between Texas and DC?

If they did stop and I was on that bus I’d run.

[hamsterjill]

16. Gotcha.

Sorry. Guess I was so pissed off at Abbott (as usual) that I didn’t get your gist.

You’re right!

[brer cat]

2. What an immature man-child.

Yes, he is having the tax payers pay for his stupid stunts.

[hamsterjill]

5. Are you old enough to remember that episode of "Little House on the Prairie"

Where Nellie was pretending to be paralyzed and Laura Ingalls pushed her down a hill and into a creek so that she would have to get up and walk out of the water?

That's my fantasy about Greggie boy. I probably need anger management classes, right?

[brer cat]

10. I'm definitely old enough, but I never watched much television.

[hamsterjill]

12. Let me see if this works...

[brer cat]

18. Yes. LOL

I can see Greg screaming as he sails down a hill into a river.

[hamsterjill]

25. It's my fantasy!!!

LOL

[imavoter]

48. My ddh was a para...

I can guarantee I know at least
some of what he may suffer.
I don't know how much pain he's in,
but must have some.

People assume lots about paras.
They are regular people, and can be
assholes. He was probably an ass before
he was injured.

[hamsterjill]

55. I'm not sure of the point of your reply.

But I want to make it clear that I have enormous sympathy and admiration for most people who are physically compromised. But Abbott is a real blister on the butt of humanity and I will joke about him because of HIS insensitivity to anyone else.

I’m certain he has been as ass his whole life.

[Ray Bruns]

58. you know that was a recurring theme on SCTV

Joe Flaherty was the station manager (Guy Caballero) and he was always shown in a wheelchair. He wasn't paralyzed, he did to gain sympathy.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Interstate trafficking. Could be federal offense

[hamsterjill]

7. Abbott will defend

AGAIN - using taxpayer dollars couched to further his own re-election stunts.

[Botany]

6. And who will pick the crops in Texas, Governor?

[heckles65]

28. Not to mention meat processed by illegals

Don't criticize them with your mouth full of chicken, especially.

[Historic NY]

30. LOL Remember the Alabama project the crops rotted in the fields...

the Gringos wouldn't do the work.

[Botany]

37. I think it was in PA or NY where they had fields of tomatoes that were already contracted ...

... to some of the food industries .... I forget which one canning, soup, or .... and they rotted in
the fields because of some kind of Trump nutball rule. The farmers were begging for help $12.00
to $15.00 per hour and they couldn't get anybody.

[Historic NY]

73. This, but most places including where I live are struggling..

because migrants aren't showing up. Covid made things worse, lots of workers went home. Immigrants that come and take these jobs as well as landscaping work are just not here, and help even with higher wages is hard to find. I work with several recent legal immigrants, and even they are struggling as help went back to their families. The 4-5 month workers evaporated. Mechanized picking still needs workers.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers|]

[Eugene]

8. Abbott's authority doesn't cross state lines.

Best case, this is an empty gesture. He's a complete idiot if actually tries this.

[hamsterjill]

9. He IS no doubt a complete idiot.

But I thought that long before this stupidity. His base will all be aflutter over this crap though.

[ruet]

11. ...

Which states depend the most on FEMA aid

Across the United States, including Washington, D.C., and outer territories, FEMA has allocated about $45.5 billion since 2017 for various forms of disaster relief, excluding COVID-19. During this time, Texas has received the most money from FEMA, totaling more than $7.6 billion in federal aid and spending more than $6.2 billion.

Along with Texas, the states most likely to get FEMA money are most likely to be affected by strong disasters, such as Florida, California and North Carolina. These states all received more than $1 billion in federal aid in the last three years. Moreover, each of these states besides North Carolina spent about 80% of its funds.

Of course, we (Democrats) won't point things like this out to our friends in Texas. That just wouldn't be fair.

[hamsterjill]

14. That's kind of you.

I'd leave Texas in a heartbeat if I didn't have familial obligations here. Sixth generation Texan and incredibly ashamed of what this state has become.

[Texin]

59. I'm right there with ya.

I'd leave this rotting, stinking state in a heartbeat. Born here. Raised here all my life. It has devolved to the point it might as well be Alabama or the panhandle of Florida. My husband is still in his CPA practice and refuses to leave, because he's got a group of clients that can't even figure out how to turn on a computer, because his work could all be accomplished online and through zoom meetings for discussions, etc.

Abbott and Paxton are the most disgusting grandstanding, shameless idiots that I've seen and had to endure in my entire lifetime.

[Escurumbele]

15. Fine, you know that Federal money that Texas gets? Discount the expense of dealing with the migrants

he sends.

FU Abbot.

[Martin68]

17. So Texans will be paying for this. Hope they like that.

I wonder if Abbot can be charged with a crime for doing this.

[texasleo]

19. States have ZERO authority to deal with international immigration.

[hamsterjill]

23. But who is going to stop Abbott?

See that’s the problem. Repukes do not play by the rules and no one stops them.

I’d love to see Abbott kicked in the ass over this.

[cstanleytech]

44. Are these people being held by law enforcement? If so then would it not be a crime to

transport/extradite them against their will across state lines without their consent?

[Jilly_in_VA]

20. KEEP IT UP, HOT WHEELS

Talk yourself right into the ground. Interstate trafficking, just for a starter.

[toesonthenose]

60. I hope you aren't referring to him as Hot Wheels because of the wheelchair

If so, please don't. I don't care for him either. Not a good person and a very bad leader. That being said, there is enough there to chastise him over, or show how ridiculous he is with his "decisions" without making fun of his situation. If I am misinterpreting what you mean, my apologies.

[Jilly_in_VA]

61. No, I call him that

because he's an asshole in a wheelchair. Same reason I call Cawthorn Little Big Wheels.

[toesonthenose]

64. Stay classy. Hope you or a friend/relative are never in that situation.

[Jilly_in_VA]

66. Actually I have several, being a retired RN,

which is where I got the appellations. I didn't think them up myself. Some folks in that situation are a little less sensitive than you, apparently

[toesonthenose]

69. Oh, my apologies then.

Didn't realize that knowing someone that likes to be referred to with a demeaning nickname gives you carte blanche to use it towards other people that you don't know. Somehow I don't think your use of the word towards Abbott the Feckless has the same connotation s it does towards your "friends" that also use wheelchairs. Blast him for his idiotic decisions, not his condition.

[Jilly_in_VA]

70. Apparently

you decided to take what I said and twist it around to suit yourself. It was one of my chairbound friends who came up with the nicknames for these awholes, not me. Now take your reply and fold it five ways. Welcome to Block City.

[hamsterjill]

74. I call him Hot Wheels.

I live in Texas and I figure I’m entitled to call the sonofabitch (had the discussions over the definition of that word, too, and it has no relation to his mother) whatever I want. He has earned this.

[DashOneBravo]

68. +1

[JohnnyRingo]

21. Pull their federal funding for border security.

Sounds like they're wasting it abyway.

[0rganism]

22. so, forced transport across state lines, eh? sounds like a case for federal courts

if Abbot's goon squad detains a legal immigrant or US citizen and pulls this stunt, there might just be some consequences.

[hamsterjill]

24. Let's hope. But it won't stop him.

He doesn’t play by any rules and he gets away with it. You know, like Trump taught him to do.

[DBoon]

26. isn't this kidnapping?

Under what legal authority can Abbot force people onto a bus and transport them across state lines?

[TomSlick]

32. Yes. It would be kidnapping.

I find it hard to believe that any police agency would participate in the round up. Cops don't do well in federal prison.

[dlk]

27. Abbott is desperate for a little attention to distract from his abysmal record.

What a loser!

[Historic NY]

29. Somehow this isn't legal....

and those there are being hosted by various groups, including Catholic charities. They are there until their claims can be determined. Texas is interfering in Federal Jurisdiction .

[Brother Buzz]

31. Are Texas farmers, facing severe labor shortages, happy Abbott plans to export potential labor?

[NotASurfer]

33. As long as the busses are there, what presents could they carry back to the Gov?

Abbot likes citizens who believe that the right to bear arms supersedes the right to exist, if I'm not mistaken, so maybe for every bus that shows up we send back a busload of paroled felons with histories that intersect with bearing arms. Maybe, internally to Texas, Abbot will waive the condition of parole that disallows gun ownership. He can parrot the "polite society" line and predict that re-arming people with violent histories using firearms will lead to less crime and zero gun deaths.

I'm hoping Beto can get his campaign over the hump this time. Texas deserves better.

[Chainfire]

34. It is time for us to give some serious thoughts to

Giving Texas back to Mexico and Florida back to Spain. (If they will have them)

[jmowreader]

45. Message from the King of Spain if we tried that

FM: Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia, King of Spain
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Prime Minister of Spain

TO: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., President of the United States of America

SUBJ: Return of Florida to Spanish Control

1. We receive with great pleasure your letter of last Friday requesting that Spain reassume control of Florida.

2. We respectfully refuse your request.

3. Although the Spanish people understand the difficulties you are having with Florida's Republican Party, and the "Florida Man" memes we see on a regular basis are quite amusing, we simply don't have either the time or the desire to fix everything that's wrong with that state. The Spanish are a peaceful and generous people; these traits simply don't exist in your Republican population.

4. In short, they're your problem. You deal with them.

5. As a consolation prize, we are currently preparing a 50,000-liter tank of gazpacho for your dining pleasure. Make sure your loose cannon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't get any. She is not worthy.

Regards.

[niyad]

51. you nearly owed me a keyboard.

[hay rick]

35. Eat your heart out, Ron DeSantis.

[Paladin]

36. Abbott is a pig bastard.

And he's married to a granddaughter of Mexican immigrants. Wonder how Mrs. Abbott feels about this cruel stunt.

[dalton99a]

38. Yeah, do that, worthless piece of shit

[area51]

39. Thank goodness TX doesn't have any problems that need addressing,

like climate change and our main source of energy comes from fossil fuels, fixing a corruptly-designed and broken power grid, expanding Medicaid (highest number of uninsured), an attempt to overturn Roe via a bounty system, oh, wait.

[AnrothElf]

40. Wow! I'm surprised! That is really nice of him...

That's what I call open borders!

I'm all for it! Maybe some of those immigrants will become citizens! I welcome them!

Edit: /s

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

41. The party of stunts

[Evolve Dammit]

42. What a fucking worthless SOS. The MAGATS are a disgusting lot. Go Beto!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Greg's own staff points out that this is a stunt

Greg cannot bus anyone without their consent. Greg's own staff points this out in Greg's release

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to bus migrants to Washington, D.C., will be voluntary

This is a stunt https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/06/greg-abbott-texas-border-title-42/

But soon after the press conference, Abbott's office released more details about the plan that struck a notably softer tone.

The governor's office clarified that the program is completely voluntary for migrants and would happen only after they had been processed and released by the Department of Homeland Security. And in addition to buses, Abbott also ordered the state to charter flights to transport migrants to the nation's capital. The migrants would have to show documentation that they had already been processed by DHS. Many immigration advocates have noted that providing transportation services for asylum-seekers to reach their final destination is something the state should invest in.

Abbott's announcement led to immediate criticism from both his left and his right. Immigration rights groups said his rhetoric was still dangerous.

"Any forcible busing of migrants across the country would be outrageous and blatantly unconstitutional," Kate Huddleston, a staff attorney at ACLU of Texas, said in a statement. "Given that Abbott cannot dictate where people are sent, he has already backpedaled on this heinous plan, announcing that it will be only voluntary."

[turbinetree]

47. Hey Abbott did you team get the national guard pay corrected "yet?

And how much is it costing your state for this BS....well looky here.....

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/05/texas-border-mission-budget/


https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/tx-national-guard-sent-to-wealthy-ranches-with-private-security-as-part-of-border-mission-troops-migrants-mexico-sheriff-governor-austin-texas-enforcement-checkpoint-damage-properties-smugglers

[argyl]

49. Saw a new poll sent to me by Beto's campaign. Abbott 42%Beto 40%.

2% points, well within the margin of error. He's got a great chance of winning. He was really effective in getting out the vote in 2018, just not enough to beat the despicable Cruz.

He's been active in his last four years, working for both Texas as well as national Democrats.
He's built up a lot of good will, not to mention a lot of name recognition.

He's charismatic, progressive, and physically very attractive. That shouldn't count but it certainly helps.
Sam Bee had me in stitches in 2018 over her Beto/Cruz skits. As Abbott is a paraplegic and not as nationally detested as Cruz she may not be as hard and heavy on Abbott as Cruz.

Anyway Beto/AOC 2028 or AOC/Beto in 2028 would be fine with me. Or Katie Price. Or a number of others. We have a deep bench.

And I'll have to say I'm really disappointed in what Texas has become as well. Fifth generation Texan here.
Great great grandfather broke a friend of his out of jail in Georgia not long after the Civil War ended and made it to Texas one step ahead of the law. That's about a badge of honor for a Texan.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

50. Then I would say give them a green card

and send them back to Texas

[Old Crank]

52. Texas continues with

to keep its history racist.
They force marched out the original land owners also.

[Emile]

53. Racism is alive and well in Texas!

[ShepKat]

54. lots of migrants work on dairy farms around here

this just gives them a ride

[Torchlight]

56. Abbott's stunt in reponse to his rapidly shrinking lead over O'Rourke

Plays really well with his idiot voter base, gives a veneer of substance to an otherwise insubstantial measure lacking any consequence, and will get hyperbolic spots all over the right media.

Given this does absolutely nothing of substance, I'll just presume it's a response to his quickly shrinking lead over O'Rourke.

[hamsterjill]

63. Validity.

I think there is validity to your thinking! Come on, Beto!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

57. Abbott is not governing, he is conducting war /nt

[The Jungle 1]

62. Now just a dang moment here.

Yer telling me trump did not build a wall????
Well what did he do with all the money he got from Mexico????
Something sounds a little crooked here.

[4catsmom]

65. Send them to Oklahoma

can't find anyone to do work here. I hear that all day over and over again. no yard help, no handymen, no housecleaners, no wait staff, no kitchen help...there's also almost no immigrants.

as a former TX resident, I can only say I miss my Mexicans.

[Marthe48]

67. I wish we could house refugees, immigrants

There are all kinds of limits on being human.

r's don't care about people in need and make it harder for all of us to be human.

[Akoto]

71. Gracious of him to not condemn them to life in Texas. lol

[myohmy2]

72. why not...

...Ukraine?

...accommodations are less expensive there at the moment...

...combining racism with patriotism at the expense of others...

...a true Republican...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

75. Gov. Abbott's threat to bus migrants to Washington isn't quite what he made it out to be

Greg lied about his program. It is voluntary

Link to tweet

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Gov-Abbott-s-threat-to-bus-migrants-to-17064833.php?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter.com

When Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas would transport apprehended migrants to Washington, D.C., he left the impression that people would be forcibly shipped off to the U.S. Capitol as soon as they crossed the border illegally and were rounded up by state authorities.

But a few hours after Abbott rolled out the plan at a press conference, the governor's office revealed several new details that painted a much different picture. In a news release, Abbott's office clarified that Texas would only transport migrants to Washington — and other destinations outside the state — if they wanted to go there and had already been processed and released by federal authorities.

Asked Thursday by Fox News host Dana Perino about the plan, Abbott said forced bus trips would run afoul of the law.

“Dana, if I were to go to Washington, D.C. and put you on a bus and take you down to the Rio Grande Valley, that would be kidnapping,” Abbott said. “Same thing applies to anybody who refuses to get onto a bus. That would be kidnapping, even though it would be by a law enforcement agency. So, there are laws that have to be followed in this process.”

Link to tweet

[hamsterjill]

76. Yeppers. All a stunt for his base.

And the base is way too ignorant to digest the details.

That’s what we are up against here in Texas. A bunch of fucking idiots who only see the parts to a story that they want to see.