Two years ago, amid a surge in the number of people crossing over the nation’s southern border into Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott started busing migrants to northern cities. Democratic and city officials were concerned that Texas would send buses filled with migrants to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. But no buses have been sent by Texas anywhere for nearly two months, The New York Times reports, based on state data and interviews with state and local officials in Texas. The last bus left the border near El Paso on June 27 carrying 50 migrants to New York.
There have simply not been enough migrants to send. The buses halted after the Biden administration issued an order in June that sharply limited the number of migrants released into the country after crossing the border illegally. Since the busing program began in 2022, Texas has transported more than 120,000 migrants to Democrat-led cities, including Chicago, New York, Washington and Denver. Shelters and city services were often overwhelmed, prompting Democratic officials to plead for federal assistance and leading some to temper their support for newly arrived migrants. As of this week, Texas was still keeping buses stationed near the border, ready to carry migrants north, officials said. But the buses leave only if there are enough interested migrants. And there have not been.
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