The Border Patrol has walked back its plans to release migrants into a Texas town after local officials vowed to take up GovAbbott's offer to bus them to Washington, D.C., according to the mayor.
Don McLaughlin, the mayor of the remote town of Uvalde, Texas, said the Border Patrol’s plans to release more than 1,000 people each week into his town of 16,000 residents were suddenly reversed following Abbott’s announcement last week in which he threatened to bus noncitizens up the East Coast to the Capitol.
In addition, McLaughlin claimed that Mayorkas told Border Patrol agents “to highly encourage these people not to get on any buses going to Washington, D.C.” "There has been no change in CBP operations in Texas," the DHS official added in a written statement.As Border Patrol began taking more illegal immigrants into custody near the border towns of Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Texas, last month, its own facilities and overflow tents exceeded capacity. Because Border Patrol stations on the border were overwhelmed, agents transported thousands in custody to other stations, up to 100 miles away.
The Texas Division of Emergency Management, the state agency overseeing the busing operation, told the Washington Examiner late Wednesday that it had dispatched buses to multiple communities over the past six days.
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