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Texas and Arizona Send Dozens of Busses of Migrants to Washington, D.C
QUICK FACTS:
- Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have offered 79 state-provided busses to recently-released migrants that will take them to Washington D.C.
- Over 2,500 migrants released from Border Patrol custody after illegally migrating have taken free bus rides to the nation’s capital.
- The busses have departed from border towns across Texas and Arizona earlier as governors of both states attempt to stem the flow of illegal migrants into their state
- “These people are wanting to go somewhere else. They’re not wanting to stay in Arizona,” said Morgan Carr, spokeswoman for Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ). “From what we’re seeing, they’re all primarily [headed to] the East Coast.”
EARLIER BUS RIDES TO DC:
- More than 2,000 migrants have taken the free bus trip from Texas to Washington since Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) began the operation in mid-April.
- Arizona began bussing its uninvited migrants to the nation’s capital in mid-May and has delivered about 523 people to the East Coast since that time.
BACKGROUND:
- The bussing program is not mandatory, and the vast majority of the migrants are not from our neighbors, Mexico.
- About 69% of migrants headed to the nation’s capital were from Colombia and another 15% were Peruvians and at least eight Russian citizens departed for Washington D.C. from Arizona on Tuesday.