WATCH: The ninth and 10th buses carrying migrants from the Texas-Mexico border to the nation's capital pulled into town late Thursday, hours after Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to continue the operation until President Joe Biden takes action.
Two white charter buses dropped off migrants in a park between the Capitol and Union Station transportation hub. Migrants onboard walked a short way to the station, where many will board trains and long-distance buses to destinations where they have family or friends.
"We will carry as many people as we can, and this is going to be an ongoing process," Abbott continued.Thursday marked the first day that more than one bus has arrived in Washington. The first charter bus arrived April 13, exactly a week after the governor announced the operation. Although each bus can carry up to 40 passengers, all have been far below capacity, carrying between nine and 28 people per bus.
"Local officials on the border — they were having the Biden administration just drop off dozens, if not hundreds, of migrants into their communities that they had no way of dealing with whatsoever," Abbott said."We are aiding those local communities by busing them out of there. And as opposed to busing them to a location somewhere in the state of Texas, we want to take them all the way to Washington, D.C.
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