The mayors of Democrat-led sanctuary cities are experiencing a gut check. After years of virtue-signaling efforts to shame border security hawks into just accepting illegal immigration as a part of everyday life, well, now they are getting the opportunity to put up or shut up. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is bussing illegal migrants from the Texas – Mexico border to sanctuary cities.

So far, the Democrat mayors have failed their gut checks. All three cities that have received buses of illegal migrants are lead by mayors who say one thing and do another. The mayors of Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago now complain and beg for help from the federal government in handling a very small number of migrants, compared to the hundreds of thousands that Texas and Arizona encounter each month. Those three cities are large metropolitan areas with resources to house, feed, and attend to the needs of illegal migrants who show up in their cities. That is not the case with the small border communities in Texas. The reason for Abbott’s political “stunt” is to bring attention to the Biden border crisis.

As Axios reports today, all of this is being done under the umbrella of Operation Lone Star. Abbott began Operation Lone Star to slow border crossings. Texas taxpayers are footing the bill for its operations. That includes the bus rides for the illegal migrants. So far, D.C. has received 7,600 illegal migrants since April, NYC has received about 1,900. Chicago received 95 illegal migrants in the first two buses. Compare those numbers to the two million apprehensions on the southern border since Joe Biden moved into the White House.

The City of El Paso is bussing illegal migrants out of Texas on its own effort, separate from Operation Lone Star. They are working with FEMA for reimbursement of their costs.

The mayors of the sanctuary cities don’t utter a peep when DHS busses or flies illegal migrants away from the southern border and to cities across the country. There has been no moral indignation over that, even as planes land in the middle of the night in airports in cities where local officials have not been notified. I don’t recall Mayors Bowser, Adams, or Lightfoot weighing in on any of that.

Abbott isn’t saying which city is next on his list. There are still plenty to choose from. There is no shortage of illegal migrants happy to accept free bus rides to cities they are trying to get to, food and water included.

Abbott sent the first buses to Washington, D.C. for a reason. He wanted to put Biden and Congress on the spot. Then he sent buses to NYC and suddenly the largest city in the country is just overwhelmed with a total of about 2,000 additional people in the city. Imagine that. Many of the border communities in Texas are smaller than the boroughs in New York yet they are expected to manage the thousands of migrants they encounter each week while Mayor Adams goes before television cameras and complains that his city is being overwhelmed. What a hypocrite.

Chicago was sanctuary city number three on Governor Abbott’s list. The name-calling from Mayor Lightfoot is fierce. Three more buses arrived Wednesday from Texas. Efforts are being made to encourage volunteers to donate clothes, shoes, hygiene products, books for children, and so on. Somehow I think the country’s third largest city will be able to handle the basic necessities for its new residents. Spare us the moral indignation, Mayor Lightfoot. Since she questioned Abbott’s religious compass, maybe she should look at her own.

Get prepared, you other sanctuary cities. Buses may be on their way to you soon. Governor Abbott has been very clear that he isn’t backing down. He has a list of cities that are declared to be sanctuary cities so it is only fair that they share in the burden. Other cities have taken notice and are bracing for what may come.

Officials in Seattle and Washington state — both of which have made a point of welcoming refugees and immigrants in the past — say they aren’t aware of any buses heading their way, but they’ve started talking about what to do if it happens.

“…[W]e have been talking with our counterparts in cities that have been the target of Governor Abbott’s program, including New York City, to learn about best practices,” Hamdi Mohamed, director of Seattle’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, said in a statement to Axios.

Staffers in Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s office are also “keeping an eye on the issue,” spokesperson Mike Faulk told Axios in an email.

Philadelphia and Boston are also making lists and checking them twice.

Philadelphia has not received any buses from Texas to date and doesn’t expect to receive any notice if they are coming, said Kevin Lessard, a spokesperson for Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.

“The city is inventorying existing resources should those seeking safe refuge find their way to Philadelphia,” Lessard said.

A spokesperson for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told Axios her office is “watching the situation at the southern border very closely and already preparing for new asylum seekers to arrive in Boston” and is in conversation with state officials, nonprofits and hospitals.
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/0...ty-list-n495102

Anybody aware of what El Paso was doing?

Now it is news.

Like the mayor of Chicago did, I guess the mayor of NYC will declare that the mayor of El Paso is racist for bussing these people, even though the mayor happens to be ethnically Mexican and was born in Mexico.

O wonder how that will stick?

El Paso Mayor Buses Migrants to NYC to Relieve Overwhelmed Detention Facilities
The surge of migrants moving west to the El Paso Border Patrol Sector led to the apprehension of approximately 30,000 in August, a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. The trend overwhelmed the sector’s detention capacity, forcing agents to carry out street releases.

Agents in the El Paso Sector jumped into the number two spot with the apprehension of just under 30,000 migrants, Breitbart Texas reported. This is up from approximately 25,000 apprehended in July. With one month to go in the fiscal year, agents in the El Paso Sector apprehended nearly 260,000 migrants.

The westward movement of the migrant surge caused detention centers in the El Paso Sector to exceed capacity — leading to the rapid release of migrants at bus stations, NBC News reported.

El Paso Sector spokesperson Valeria Morales told NBC, “Generally, after processing, migrants who are not detained for the duration of their removal proceeding are provisionally released in coordination with [non-governmental organizations].”

“If NGOs are over capacity, U.S. Border Patrol coordinates with local government and cities to identify locations where migrants can conveniently access transportation services or accommodations,” she added.

NBC reports:

Hundreds of migrants, mainly Venezuelans, who have not yet been processed by Border Patrol have amassed in an El Paso neighborhood called Chihuahita as they await processing. Border agents do biometric screenings on migrants before their “street releases” but hold those who may pose a threat to public safety.

Venezuelans have migrated to the U.S. in large numbers in recent years because of poverty, violence and shortages of medicine and food in their homeland.

The release of migrants into the city of El Paso led Mayor Oscar Leeser (D) and the city council to join with Governor Greg Abbott in chartering buses to transport migrants to New York, El Paso Matters reported. Border Patrol officials released nearly 1,000 migrants onto the city’s streets last week.

The City has chartered 25 buses since August 23 and transported 1,135 to New York City. Mayor Eric Adams called Texas’ transportation of migrants to his city on free, air-conditioned buses “horrific,” Breitbart’s Hannah Bleau reported. It remains to be seen if he will have similar comments directed to the fellow Democrat mayor of El Paso.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/09...ion-facilities/

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #3

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Since they're not going to defend our border, this is the next best thing. And I love seeing all the contortions the leftists are warping themselves into.

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As one would expect, DeSantis has upped the ante. Gotta love this guy.

Governor DeSantis Sends two Planes of Illegal Aliens to Martha’s Vineyard
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday sent two planes of illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard.

The illegal aliens will now live near Barack Obama’s estate.

The Obamas recently purchased a beachfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard.The Obamas should be happy to welcome the illegals to their little sanctuary city.

Fox News reported:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed through on his promise to drop off illegal immigrants in progressive states, sending two planes full of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday.

A video provided to Fox News Digital shows the migrants deboarding the planes at Martha’s Vineyard Airport in Massachusetts.

“Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations,” the governor’s communications director, Taryn Fenske, told Fox News Digital.

“States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country’ by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies,” she said.

“As you may know, in this past legislative session the Florida Legislature appropriated $12 million to implement a program to facilitate the transport of illegal immigrants from this state consistent with federal law,” she added.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09...veNewsSites2020

This is so delicious.


DeSantis Staff: Thousands More Migrants Could Be Headed to Martha's Vineyard
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/desanti.../15/id/1087682/

Martha’s Vineyard Could House Six Million Refugees
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/0...llion-refugees/

“A crisis? Wait, I’m confused.” Ted Cruz absolutely BUSTS liberal Martha’s Vineyard frauds with their OWN words.
The absolute freak-out by the media and the left over illegals being flown to wealthy and exclusive Democrat havens has been spectacular to see. They are literally bringing up Hitler in their madness at being caught red-handed as total hypocrites.
Well Sen. Ted Cruz ain’t havin’ it. After Martha’s Vineyard tweeted pathetically about being in a “humanitarian crisis” Cruz delivered an internet fatality. And he did it with their own words that were directed at HIM.

Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
A “crisis”?? Wait…I’m confused.

When I proposed this last year, County commissioner Keith Chatinover said “I would LOVE Martha’s Vineyard to become a HAVEN for new immigrants to this country, but Senator Cruz HAS NO IDEA what he’s talking about regarding a ‘border crisis.’”https://therightscoop.com/a-crisis-wait-im-confused-ted-cruz-absolutely-busts-liberal-marthas-vineyard-frauds-with-their-own-words/