Texas Governor Greg Abbott criticized Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration for busing migrants to other parts of the country while campaigning for former President Donald Trump in Arizona. However, minutes later, Abbott bragged about doing the same thing. He mentioned a DHS plan to transport migrants awaiting immigration proceedings to different parts of the country and highlighted his own program, Operation Lone Star, which bused migrants to Washington, D.C., including dropping them off at the address of Vice President Harris. Abbott claimed that sanctuary cities volunteered to receive migrants, exposing what he called the hypocrisy of Democrats. Despite his claims, data showed that no buses left Texas for blue cities in July, and new asylum restrictions contributed to a decrease in migrant crossings. The attack on Harris comes amid Trump’s campaign attempting to tie her to the chaos at the border, referring to her as the “border czar.” The criticism from Abbott prompted a response from the Harris-Walz campaign, which highlighted a bipartisan border bill that Senate Republicans blocked in February. The statement from the campaign included remarks from a border town mayor criticizing Trump for opposing the bill. Overall, Abbott’s criticism of Harris and the Biden administration’s handling of migrant transportation was met with both applause and skepticism, as he also boasted about his own actions in busing migrants.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott criticizes Harris for transporting migrants and boasts about his own transportation initiative.
