Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) declared Washington, D.C., a “border town” after Texas dropped off its first illegal immigrants on Wednesday morning just blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Cruz’s comments come after Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that his state will be busing illegal immigrants caught entering Texas to Washington, D.C., to encourage the Biden administration to strengthen border security.
“Washington D.C. is a border town,” Cruz wrote on Twitter along with a report from Fox News.
Washington D.C. is a border town.
https://t.co/rGE2On0WRT— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 13, 2022
“The bus pulled up at approximately 8 a.m. local time, blocks away from the U.S. Capitol building. Fox News has learned that they came from the Del Rio sector in Texas, after coming to the U.S. from Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela,” Fox News noted.
“Upon the bus’s arrival in Washington, D.C., individuals disembarked one by one except for family units who exited together. They checked in with officials and had wristbands they were wearing cut off before being told they could go,” Fox News added.
Earlier this month, Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration announced that it would be ending Title 42, a Trump-era border security policy, in May. The end of Title 42 is expected to result in as many as 18,000 migrants crossing the southern border illegally each day, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by ABC News.
“The DHS Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) produced projections for post-Title 42 Southwest Border encounters describing low, medium, high, or very high encounter scenarios,” the document says. “These scenarios underpin planning assumptions that generate requirements which in turn drive operational execution. Based on these projections the SBCC is currently planning for 6,000, 12,000 (high) and 18,000 (very high) encounters per day.”
