Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced plans to transport "thousands" of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities such as New York City and Chicago as Title 42 expires on Thursday.
The power granted to Border Patrol and Department of Homeland Security officials enabled them to remove illegal immigrants over concerns about health and the spread of infectious diseases.
Abbott stated, "With the Biden Administration ending Title 42 this Thursday, President Biden is laying down a welcome mat to people worldwide, saying that the United States border is wide open and will lead to an incredible amount of people coming across the border illegally."
Abbott began relocating the masses of illegal immigrants flooding into Texas in April, promising to bus them to blue states whose leadership supported open borders. By October, 19,000 illegal immigrants had arrived in NYC, causing NYC Mayor Eric Adams to declare an emergency due to leadership's inability to house and care for the individuals. Abbott added on Monday that "Thousands have been bussed already" to cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington DC.
Abbott deployed the Texas National Guard to the US-Mexico border in anticipation of Title 42 ending and the expectation that 13,000 will try to cross the border each day, for a total of 4.74 million in 2023. In Biden's border crisis, 2,378,944 illegal immigrant encounters were reported in the 2022 fiscal year, and 1,659,206 were reported in FY 2021. The cities of El Paso, Laredo, and Brownsville have declared states of emergency.
A team of Texas National Guard members known as the Tactical Border Force was also deployed to the border. Abbott said, "They will be deployed to hot spots along the border to intercept, to repeal, and to turn back migrants that are trying to enter the US illegally." The Tactical Border Force will use C-130 Hercules aircraft and Black Hawk Helicopters in their efforts.
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