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Texas Governor @GregAbbott_TX carries out his pledge to transport illegal migrants to Washington, DC. The bus pulled up right in front of the building that houses @FoxNews , @NBCNews and ⁦@cspan⁩

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Abbott's plan is, ironically, 95% of the way to a good idea. It's the last 5%, where the drop-offs are deliberately in front of Fox News HQ and local NGOs aren't notified, that turns it from a good idea to a deliberate cruelty that treats human beings like pawns. Disgusting.

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Neither Fox News nor Greg Abbott think migrants qua migrants are people. Oh sure, individual migrants may be elevated to the status of a person if useful as a political tool—the small children who die in the desert, the suffering of unnamed women—but that's the exception.

First Texas bus drops off migrants blocks from US Capitol in Washington, DC

The bus arrived an hour ago. Not sure where people are going now. But this was all coordinated closely with Fox News, which had an article up immediately. One man said he was heading to Florida—sign that Abbott's "voluntary" bus trips were probably not.

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A bus from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C. Wednesday morning, transporting dozens of illegal immigrants as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new plan to counter federal immigration policies during...

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Not surprisingly, a bunch of ghouls on this hellsite think dropping off about a dozen people in DC is some major "own the libs" moment, and not... literally every morning when tourists from around the world show up on charter buses. If Fox wasn't there, nobody would even notice.

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As a long-time DC resident, I hate seeing our town used again as a political prop. Guess what, Greg Abbott. We're not afraid of migrants. We are a vibrant immigrant community that has already welcomed tens of thousands of migrants in the last few years. We have heart—unlike you.

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One further update: apparently the bus had 15 Venezuelans, all of whom have now gone to Union Station and are going to pay for a bus to Florida to reunite with their families. I'm sure Senator Rubio is going to decry Abbott's treatment of Venezuelan asylum seekers, right? Right?

1:50 PM · Apr 13, 2022

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This is presumably meant as a gotcha, but of course I'd buy a ticket. Many people, myself included, donate to charities like Miles4Migrants that help people get to their ultimate destination and apply for asylum. Helping the stranger is core to my beliefs.

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Are you going to pay for them to get on the train?

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Migrants bused from Texas begin arriving in Washington, near the U.S. Capitol

More information on the bus. It was 25 people in total (19 men, 4 women, and 2 children), all Nicaraguan and Venezuelan. They were dropped off within a few blocks of Union Station, so all are presumably now at the station waiting for another bus.

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Migrant buses arrive in DC: It wasn’t quite at the steps of the U.S. Capitol, but awfully close. A charter bus carrying migrants from Texas under Gov. Greg...

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For those who have been asking how to help, apparently

@CCADW

is on the scene and providing assistance for people to get to their ultimate destination. Always look for the helpers, as Mr. Rogers said.

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People immigrating nearly always have an ultimate destination in their post-border-crossing plan. Getting from DC to Florida is probably a lot easier a route than Texas to Florida so that worked out pretty nicely for them, really.

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Does warmonger

want to go to war with Texas over this?

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