Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For more than two years, Gov. Greg Abbott has sent thousands of migrants who’ve recently arrived at the southern border to cities run by Democrats.
The bus trips to Democrat-run cities stopped after June as the number of migrants apprehended across the southwest border plummeted.
The slowdown has coincided with a decrease in the number of migrants entering the country illegally following an executive order from President Joe Biden in early June thatin Texas in June, the first month that Biden’s order was in place. The sharp drop of apprehensions in Texas was also seen across the rest of the southwest border and continued in July, when they hit aborder mission that launched in March 2021.
Since Abbott began the program in 2022, the state has transported approximately 119,400 migrants to other states, according to figures shared by Abbott’s office last week.
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