Recently Texas Governor Greg Abbott cave to pressure from Right Wing
extremists who wanted him to essentially declare an invasion in Texas.
In order to trigger the National Guard to end state troopers by the way
to police the borders and immediately expel any asylum seeker or
any migrant trying to come into the country.
Now Abbott didn't want to do that.
So instead he came out with this plan.
He's like this will be genius.
Came out pretending to be a tough guy and he's like you know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna put these migrants on a bus, I'm gonna ship them over to DC and
I'm gonna have DC deal with them, okay?
Now we can't force them onto that bus, because that's considered kidnapping.
He could actually face some pretty serious charges for that.
So it's really a voluntary effort.
And guess what, some of these migrants are telling Texas Governor Greg Abbott,
thanks for the ride home boy, let's watch the video.
>> They know that they are a prop in all of this, but they wanted to come anyway
because this allows them to get a ticket to where they're going.
Some of these migrants told me that they want to go on to Miami.
They said they are very excited to be here.
They feel welcomed.
We're here in the food court at Union station where a lot of them have been
getting something to eat, because this was a 34 hour bus ride,
which they did tell me that they received food and drinks.
But it's been a very long journey and now they're going to be departing to other
destinations, catholic charities has been on hand to assist them when their efforts.
How do you feel?
>> [FOREIGN] >> Destination
[FOREIGN] >> Miami.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> Miami Miami you got style?
Yeah, I watched the golden girls.
That's the only reason why I know that song.
No, I love it so much.
You guys, this is such Texas residents,
are funding the transportation of these
migrants to places honestly like Florida.
So now Rhonda Santis is the one [LAUGH] who is, I mean, I don't even
wanna say Rhonda Santis is the one who has to deal with these migrants.
Because at the end of the day we're talking like especially since
we're talking about Venezuelans here, right?
The Right Wing loves to talk about the terrible conditions of Venezuela.
The poor Venezuelans like they love to talk about that.
All right, so, I mean, you acknowledge that the conditions that they're
living in are terrible that they need help.
So help them, go ahead Rhonda Santis help him out.
No, I just, I love it because at the end of the day,
what Abbott did with this was just a stunt.
It was nothing more than a political stunt.
It was partly a stunt that he pulled in response to the pressure he was
receiving from the more extreme elements of his party,
from former Trump administration officials,
and it was partly a stunt because that's all politicians do these days.
They engage in stunts, and sometimes those stunts backfire.
So if Democrats were smart and they're not,
what they should do is campaign on this.
Talk to the people of Texas who unwittingly our funding the free rides for
these migrants to various parts of the country.
I think it's great.
I love that they're paying for it more of that, please.
But my guess is democrats won't use this as a way of essentially
calling out Republicans for who they really are.
Yes, they're hateful, but they try to exploit the hatred and
the fear of constituents in order to do their campaigning, and it's so
easy to call them out on that.
And what's frustrating is how ineffective and
weak Democrats are in using these weaknesses against the Republican Party.
But anyway, I hope these migrants are safe.
I hope they're happy.
And more importantly, I hope that Abbott's being harassed
by his Right Wing Republican officials as we speak, nothing would make me happier.