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   White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday said it is “nice”   
   of the state of Texas to bus illegal immigrants from the border to   
   Washington, D.C., hours after the first bus out of Texas arrived   
   blocks away from the U.S. Capitol building.   
      
   Last week, Abbott announced that Texas would be sending willing   
   illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., by bus and plane in response   
   to the Biden administration’s recent announcement that it will lift   
   Title 42, a Trump-era public-health order that has allowed U.S.   
   border officials to quickly expel migrant families to Mexico, next   
   month.   
      
   “These are all migrants who have been processed by CBP and are free   
   to travel, so it’s nice the state of Texas is helping them get to   
   their final destination as they await the outcome of their   
   immigration proceedings — and they’re all in immigration   
   proceedings,” Psaki said when asked during a press briefing about   
   the first bus arriving on Wednesday.   
      
   The bus carried dozens of migrants from the Del Rio sector in Texas.   
   The migrants were released into Texas’s border communities by the   
   federal government after coming to the U.S. from Colombia, Cuba,   
   Nicaragua, and Venezuela, Fox News reported. After the bus arrived   
   in the Capitol, the migrants checked in with officials and had   
   wristbands they were wearing removed before being allowed to leave,   
   the report added.   
      
   Psaki had previously called Abbott’s policy a “publicity stunt.”   
      
   The state has sent an undisclosed number of buses to the border   
   communities impacted by an influx of migrants, but the Texas   
   Division of Emergency Management said each bus “has the capacity and   
   supplies necessary to carry up to 40 migrants.”   
      
   The state has a pool of up to 900 buses for the operation, Texas   
   Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said last week,   
   according to CNN.   
      
   “From the [Rio Grande Valley] to Terrell County, a large majority of   
   the communities that originally reached out for support through this   
   operation have now said that the federal government has stopped   
   dropping migrants in their towns since the governor’s announcement   
   on Wednesday,” Seth Christensen, chief of media and communications   
   for TDEM, told Fox News last week.   
      
   Meanwhile, Psaki doubled down on her criticism of another of   
   Abbott’s policies during the press briefing on Wednesday, this time   
   calling the governor’s order to carry out “enhanced safety   
   inspections” of vehicles that pass through ports of entry a   
   “political stunt.”   
      
   Abbott directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to carry out   
   the enhanced inspections last week over concern about “cartels that   
   smuggle illicit contraband and people across our southern border.”   
   The governor suggested there will be an increase in smuggling when   
   Title 42 ends.   
      
      
   During the briefing, Psaki was asked if she is blaming Abbott for   
   inflation.   
      
   “Well I think we’re trying to state the facts of what is another   
   political stunt that we’re seeing happen and the impact of it,”   
   Psaki replied. “What we’re seeing is right now, factually, there’s   
   over $1 million in trade crossing over the U.S.-Mexico border every   
   minute. These actions are impacting people’s jobs and the   
   livelihoods of hardworking families in Texas and across the   
   country.”   
      
   She went on to say that the “unnecessary inspections” are causing   
   “significant delays, which are resulting in a drop in commercial   
   traffic of up to 60 to 70 percent in some ports.”   
      
   However, the country has been contending with soaring inflation for   
   months now. A Labor Department report released Tuesday showed the   
   Consumer Price Index, a major inflation gauge measuring the cost of   
   the average household basket of goods, came in at 8.5 percent over   
   the 12-month period ending in March. The rise is the largest 12-   
   month increase since the period ending December 1981.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/psaki-nice-texas-send-busloads-204537521.html   
      
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