Questions and uncertainty over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest border orders continue after Wednesday’s announcement of what he called an “unprecedented”...
The governor signed two letters as he continues to make border security the hallmark of his 2022 re-election campaign.
The other letter he signed Wednesday directs the Texas Division of Emergency Management to bus migrants who are released from federal custody into Texas border cities, like McAllen and Brownsville, to Washington, D.C. — a journey that can take nearly 28 hours.Abbott spokeswoman Nan Tolson confirmed the effort would be limited to commercial vehicles. Concerns were raised immediately about how boosting inspections will snarl traffic at Texas-Mexico border crossings even more.
In Laredo, the busiest land port on the Texas border, about 2.4 million trucks crossed in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, according to data kept by the . At the five largest crossing points in the Rio Grande Valley, a cumulative total of more than a million trucks passed in 2019. In Eagle Pass, about 180,000 trucks passed in 2019.
Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, when asked how many buses would be chartered, said the state has procured as many as 900 in past natural disaster responses, such as to Category 5 hurricanes.
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