First Migrants Arrive in D.C. on Charter Buses Provided by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Apr 14, 2022 View Original Article
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    -4% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    60% Negative

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Sentiments

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  •   Conservative
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"Last week the governor aounced the first of a series of border security enhancements including directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management to transport migrants on charter buses from Texas to Washington D.C.Biden refuses to come see the mess he's made at the border."
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20% Conservative
"Last week the governor aounced the first of a series of border security enhancements including directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management to transport migrants on charter buses from Texas to Washington D.C.Biden refuses to come see the mess he's made at the border."
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2% Conservative
"Abbott's office said the second bus of migrants is, as of this writing, also on its way to the nation's capital."
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12% Conservative
"The first group of undocumented migrants who volunteered to take a charter from the Texas border to Washington D.C. on a bus provided by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arrived in the nation's capital Wednesday morning."
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10% Conservative
"Abbott's office confirmed the arrival, saying the busing strategy is part of the governor's response to the Biden Administration's decision to end"
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6% Conservative
"Abbott said the DPS will continue mandatory inspections of all commercial vehicle traffic entering the state at other crossings until he has similar assurances of security from the governors of those Mexican states."
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6% Conservative
"Another of Abbott's border initiatives, to require the Texas Department of Public Safety to perform an enhanced security check on every commercial vehicle entering the state, was swiftly met with calls that it be discontinued after causing devastating delays at the border."
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-4% Liberal
"Abbott said the change was made possible through an agreement with the Mexican state's governor, Samuel Alejandro Garcu00eda Sepu00falveda, who said he would create checkpoints on the Mexican side of the border to curtail trafficking."
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-6% Liberal
"As the federal government continues to turn a blind eye to the border crisis, the State of Texas will remain steadfast in our efforts to fill in the gaps and keep Texans safe, said Abbott in a prepared statement."
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-8% Liberal
"So Texas is bringing the border to him, Abbott tweeted Wednesday."
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-12% Liberal
"Abbott, on Wednesday afternoon, admitted to causing the delays and aounced he was immediately suspending the directive at one crossing in Nuevo Leu00f3n."
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-16% Liberal
"Frustration over the policy grew within members of Abbott's own party: Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller called on the governor to cease his commercial truck inspection project, calling it a catastrophic policy which has now led to Mexican truckers blockading the border and forced some trucks to reroute hundreds of miles to Arizona."
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-24% Liberal
"Not even a week into the inspections, the Mexican government said Tuesday that Abbott's order was causing serious damage to trade and that cross-border traffic had plummeted to a third of normal levels."
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% :Last week the governor announced the first of a series of border security enhancements including directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management to transport migrants on charter buses from Texas to Washington D.C."Biden refuses to come see the mess he's made at the border.

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