Texas could bus migrants to directly to ICE for deportation instead of sanctuary cities under proposed plan

Texas could instrumentality a program to bus migrants straight to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful an effort to get them processed for deportation, according to media reports. 

The determination would beryllium a departure from the state's program, portion of Operation Lone Star, that has bussed thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities, a root told the New York Post. It has yet to beryllium approved by Gov. Greg Abbott. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Abbott's office. 

"We are ever going to beryllium progressive successful borderline information truthful agelong arsenic we’re a borderline state," a Texas authorities root told the newspaper. "We spent a batch of payer wealth to person the level of deterrent that we person connected the border, and we can’t conscionable locomotion away."

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Migrants committee a metropolis autobus to a structure intake halfway aft traveling connected a autobus from Del Rio, Texas, to the Port Authority Bus Terminal successful New York City connected May 13, 2023. (Victor J. Blue)

Abbott has been particularly assertive successful combating amerciable immigration, bussing migrants to bluish cities successful an effort to bring attraction to the borderline crisis. Under the projected plan, buses chartered by Texas from borderline cities volition beryllium taken to national detention centers to assistance ICE agents process migrants quickly, the Post reported.

Texas has been successful a ineligible combat with the Biden administration implicit its efforts to curb amerciable immigration. On Wednesday, an appeals tribunal ruled that the authorities has the close to physique a razor ligament borderline partition to deter migrants. 

Officials person besides offered onshore to the incoming Trump medication to physique deportation centers to clasp amerciable migrant criminals.

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"My bureau has identified respective of our properties and is lasting by acceptable to marque this hap connected Day One of the Trump presidency," Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said during a sojourn to the borderline Tuesday.

Authorities person besides warned of unaccompanied migrant children being caught adjacent the border. On Thursday, a 10-year-old lad from El Salvador told authorities troopers successful Maverick County, Texas, that helium had been mislaid and near down by a quality smuggler. 

The lad was holding a cellphone and crying, Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez posted connected X. The kid said his parents were successful the U.S. 

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On Sunday, troopers encountered an unaccompanied 2-year-old miss from El Salvador holding a portion of insubstantial with a telephone fig and her name. She told authorities that her parents were besides successful the U.S. 

That morning, authorities troopers besides encountered a radical of 211 amerciable immigrants successful Maverick County. Among the radical were 60 unaccompanied children, ages 2 to 17, and six peculiar involvement immigrants from Mali and Angola. 

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"Regardless of governmental views, it is unacceptable for immoderate kid to beryllium exposed to unsafe transgression trafficking networks," Olivarez wrote astatine the time. "With a grounds fig of unaccompanied children and hundreds of thousands missing, determination is nary 1 ensuring the information & information of these children but for the men & women who are connected the frontlines daily."

He noted that the "reality is that galore children are exploited & trafficked, ne'er to beryllium heard from again."