'Sanctuary Cities' around US to get more migrant bus loads

 Karen Townsend:

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Get prepared, you other sanctuary cities. Buses may be on their way to you soon. Governor Abbott has been very clear that he isn’t backing down. He has a list of cities that are declared to be sanctuary cities so it is only fair that they share in the burden. Other cities have taken notice and are bracing for what may come.

Officials in Seattle and Washington state — both of which have made a point of welcoming refugees and immigrants in the past — say they aren’t aware of any buses heading their way, but they’ve started talking about what to do if it happens.

“…[W]e have been talking with our counterparts in cities that have been the target of Governor Abbott’s program, including New York City, to learn about best practices,” Hamdi Mohamed, director of Seattle’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, said in a statement to Axios.

Staffers in Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s office are also “keeping an eye on the issue,” spokesperson Mike Faulk told Axios in an email.

Philadelphia and Boston are also making lists and checking them twice.

Philadelphia has not received any buses from Texas to date and doesn’t expect to receive any notice if they are coming, said Kevin Lessard, a spokesperson for Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.

“The city is inventorying existing resources should those seeking safe refuge find their way to Philadelphia,” Lessard said.

A spokesperson for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told Axios her office is “watching the situation at the southern border very closely and already preparing for new asylum seekers to arrive in Boston” and is in conversation with state officials, nonprofits and hospitals.

As Axios reports today, all of this is being done under the umbrella of Operation Lone Star. Abbott began Operation Lone Star to slow border crossings. Texas taxpayers are footing the bill for its operations. That includes the bus rides for the illegal migrants. So far, D.C. has received 7,600 illegal migrants since April, NYC has received about 1,900. Chicago received 95 illegal migrants in the first two buses. Compare those numbers to the two million apprehensions on the southern border since Joe Biden moved into the White House.

The City of El Paso is bussing illegal migrants out of Texas on its own effort, separate from Operation Lone Star. They are working with FEMA for reimbursement of their costs.

The mayors of the sanctuary cities don’t utter a peep when DHS busses or flies illegal migrants away from the southern border and to cities across the country. There has been no moral indignation over that, even as planes land in the middle of the night in airports in cities where local officials have not been notified. I don’t recall Mayors Bowser, Adams, or Lightfoot weighing in on any of that.

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It is easy to virtue signal when you are hundreds of miles away from the border where millions are pouring over because of Biden's failure to defend the border and enforce US immigration law.  The reality of thousands of illegals is something else.  I still think they should be taken to Biden and Obama's beach houses.