US flying migrants from Canada to Texas

 Reuters:

U.S. authorities have been flying migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border to Texas as part of a deterrence effort to tackle a rise in crossings, according to authorities, flight records and a Reuters witness.

U.S. Border Patrol has quietly transported about 100 migrants this month on two charter flights from Plattsburgh, New York, near the border with Canada, to the Texas cities of Harlingen and El Paso.

The southbound flights from the northern border are a break from past practice as the United States deals with a sharp rise in migrants crossing illegally from Canada, current and former officials told Reuters.

At the same time, asylum seekers have been crossing from the United States into Canada in record numbers, straining resources. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to raise migration issues with U.S. President Joe Biden during meetings in Ottawa on Thursday and Friday.

U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 2,900 people crossing illegally from Canada into the United States in the five months since October, more than all of fiscal year 2022. About half of those were Mexicans, who do not need a visa to travel to Canada.
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CBP declined to say whether the migrants were expelled to Mexico under COVID border restrictions known as Title 42. The restrictions are set to end on May 11 along with the COVID public health emergency, but the Biden administration expanded their scope earlier this year to deter crossers.
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It is not like Texas is not already overrun with millions of migrants.  It is possible they were brought to Texas for deportation as a means of deterring migrants from using Canada as an entry location.