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White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday said it is “nice”
of the state of Texas to bus illegal immigrants from the border to
Washington, D.C., hours after the first bus out of Texas arrived
blocks away from the U.S. Capitol building.

Last week, Abbott announced that Texas would be sending willing
illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., by bus and plane in response
to the Biden administration’s recent announcement that it will lift
Title 42, a Trump-era public-health order that has allowed U.S.
border officials to quickly expel migrant families to Mexico, next
month.

“These are all migrants who have been processed by CBP and are free
to travel, so it’s nice the state of Texas is helping them get to
their final destination as they await the outcome of their
immigration proceedings — and they’re all in immigration
proceedings,” Psaki said when asked during a press briefing about
the first bus arriving on Wednesday.

The bus carried dozens of migrants from the Del Rio sector in Texas.
The migrants were released into Texas’s border communities by the
federal government after coming to the U.S. from Colombia, Cuba,
Nicaragua, and Venezuela, Fox News reported. After the bus arrived
in the Capitol, the migrants checked in with officials and had
wristbands they were wearing removed before being allowed to leave,
the report added.

Psaki had previously called Abbott’s policy a “publicity stunt.”

The state has sent an undisclosed number of buses to the border
communities impacted by an influx of migrants, but the Texas
Division of Emergency Management said each bus “has the capacity and
supplies necessary to carry up to 40 migrants.”

The state has a pool of up to 900 buses for the operation, Texas
Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said last week,
according to CNN.

“From the [Rio Grande Valley] to Terrell County, a large majority of
the communities that originally reached out for support through this
operation have now said that the federal government has stopped
dropping migrants in their towns since the governor’s announcement
on Wednesday,” Seth Christensen, chief of media and communications
for TDEM, told Fox News last week.

Meanwhile, Psaki doubled down on her criticism of another of
Abbott’s policies during the press briefing on Wednesday, this time
calling the governor’s order to carry out “enhanced safety
inspections” of vehicles that pass through ports of entry a
“political stunt.”

Abbott directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to carry out
the enhanced inspections last week over concern about “cartels that
smuggle illicit contraband and people across our southern border.”
The governor suggested there will be an increase in smuggling when
Title 42 ends.


During the briefing, Psaki was asked if she is blaming Abbott for
inflation.

“Well I think we’re trying to state the facts of what is another
political stunt that we’re seeing happen and the impact of it,”
Psaki replied. “What we’re seeing is right now, factually, there’s
over $1 million in trade crossing over the U.S.-Mexico border every
minute. These actions are impacting people’s jobs and the
livelihoods of hardworking families in Texas and across the
country.”

She went on to say that the “unnecessary inspections” are causing “significant delays, which are resulting in a drop in commercial
traffic of up to 60 to 70 percent in some ports.”

However, the country has been contending with soaring inflation for
months now. A Labor Department report released Tuesday showed the
Consumer Price Index, a major inflation gauge measuring the cost of
the average household basket of goods, came in at 8.5 percent over
the 12-month period ending in March. The rise is the largest 12-
month increase since the period ending December 1981.

https://news.yahoo.com/psaki-nice-texas-send-busloads-204537521.html

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