Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t flinching amid Democratic criticism of his busing program that has now sent about 12,000 migrants who have crossed the border in Texas north to cities run by Democratic mayors.
Abbott began targeting the Harris residence last month after the vice president visited Houston. Abbott and other Republicans have criticized Harris for not visiting the stretches of Texas border where federal border agents are encountering record numbers of people crossing, many of them seeking asylum.
"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,’” Abbott said last month.said she and President Joe Biden have been calling on Congress to do more to fix the nation’s immigration issues.
“The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed,” she said then. O’Rourke has been a big critic of Abbott's busing program, telling the debate audience Friday that Abbott is “treating human beings as political pawns.”
O’Rourke said Operation Lone Star, which has also included sending National Guard troops and at one point shut down commercial traffic crossing from Mexico, has cost the state $4 billion, and yet the surge of migrants continues, proving Abbott’s efforts are not working.
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