One year later: Abbott’s migrant buses succeeded in rewriting the immigration debate -
Some on the right worried he was wasting taxpayer money on illegal immigrants. The White House derided the busing as unhelpful and ineffective. And immigration-rights advocates complained that it was a dirty trick that treated the migrants as political pawns.
“It’s pretty clear it had the desired effect, which was to light a fire under the Democrats to do something about the border,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “Now they haven’t done as much as I’d like, but there’s no question Democratic mayors complained to the White House and demanded some changes.”The location was chosen because it was close to the Capitol, so members of Congress could get a close-up look at the situation.
“Obviously Abbott tapped into something and got a rise out of the administration,” Mr. Krikorian said. “It’s been a rousing success, so long as you didn’t think somehow the Biden administration was going to completely change its take on immigration.” Maureen Meyer, vice president for programs at the Washington Office on Latin America, also honed in on Texas’s failure to cooperate with the places it was sending the migrants.
In Washington, city leaders claimed they didn’t have money to handle the several thousand new arrivals, and pleaded with the feds for more cash.In New York, Mayor Eric Adams was stashing migrants in a giant tent in a flood zone until activists shamed him into shutting it down. They said he was violating the city’s right-to-shelter law.
“There were skeptics early on, but then you saw validation of it, and even imitation of it by the governor of Florida taking it to another level,” Mr. Oliver said.
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