Since April, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been chartering buses to send migrants to cities like Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago. Here's what that journey has been like
Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition volunteer Scott Slater prepares to receive the first bus of migrants arriving for travel assistance in Del Rio, Texas, on Aug. 15, 2022.he first group of migrants arrives in a white bus as the rain calms. On a soggy August morning in Del Rio, Texas, about 50 men, women, and children have just been released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody. Despite deboarding into a rare desert downpour, most of them are smiling.
The busing—part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a controversial initiative to secure the Texas-Mexico border that launched in March 2021— has cost Texas taxpayers more than $12 million as of mid-August, according to the Texas Division of Emergency Management, while Abbott has raised more than $303,000 in private donations to fund the effort. But for the migrants who choose to board them, the buses are free.
If the states intended to sway the federal government to toughen immigration policy, they so far have been unsuccessful. But in the process, they’ve provided a service to thousands of migrants seeking homes in the United States.The Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition , a local nonprofit, is ready to receive the migrants in Del Rio on Aug. 15 when the CBP bus arrives at their headquarters.
. Between January and August of this year, that figure neared 32,000. In August alone, 4,500 people were processed through VVBHC. An official scans Jhason's assigned barcoded wristband required to travel on an Operation Lone Star bus to either Washington, D.C. or New York, New York, from the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition in Del Rio, Texas, on Aug. 15, 2022.“The food isn’t that good, but thank God they’re helping us with this,” Jhason, who is being identified only by his first name because he fears for the safety of his family in Venezuela, tells TIME in Spanish via WhatsApp from aboard the bus.
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