Texas Officials Rip Biden for Flying as Many as 600 Migrants a Week to Lone Star State: ‘It’s offensive’; Biden Admin Flying Migrants from Overwhelmed California to Texas After Gov. Abbott’s Crackdown Deterred Crossings — at $80K Per Flight

Texas officials rip Biden for flying as many as 600 migrants a week to Lone Star State: ‘It’s offensive’:

Texas politicians slammed the Biden administration for flying in migrants from hard-hit California — with as many as 600 a week getting dumped in the Lone Star State, The Post has learned.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith said Texas is just getting punished after the state went to great lengths to successfully crack down on illegal crossings.

“It’s frustrating as a Texan that California, which refuses to work with us … is causing and allowing people to fly into California, and then that’s resulting in them having to then ship people to Texas when we’ve been inundated now for years,” Roy told The Post.

The estimated $80,000-a-pop commercial flights take off from Cali four times a week and are bound for Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, The Post exclusively reported this week.

As many as 150 migrants are aboard each flight, a Customs and Border Protection official said.

When the migrants are flown, they’re processed by border agents for removal, but if they have a credible fear or have some other possible exemption to Biden’s latest border rule, they’re typically handed over to ICE, sources said.

If ICE doesn’t have space, which it often doesn’t, they’ll release the migrants.

CBP says that it’s “using its resources to transfer migrants subject” to new rules restricting asylum “in order to expeditiously remove them from the country” and “not so they can be released.”

The costly, taxpayer-funded measure is meant to help relieve the pressure on San Diego, where migrant holding facilities remain over their operational capacities.––>READ MORE HERE

Biden admin flying migrants from overwhelmed California to Texas after Gov. Abbott’s crackdown deterred crossings — at $80K per flight:

The Biden administration has been flying migrants from California, which is being overrun, to Texas — where Gov. Greg Abbott’s tough border control measures have deterred illegal crossings into the state, The Post can reveal.

For the last month, pricey Border Patrol charter flights on commercial-sized planes have been hauling border crossers from San Diego to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, sources told The Post.

Sources say the flights, which have been operating every week, cost an estimated $80,000 and are known for being “extremely expensive.”

Photos also show dozens of migrants shackled by the ankles boarding the planes, which are operated by a contractor, in San Diego.

Migrant holding facilities in the San Diego region have been inundated and are at 150% capacity, according to internal federal data recently obtained by The Post — even after the Biden administration announced a new “crackdown” in June enabling the federal government to expedite the removal of asylum seekers who don’t have a credible claim of fear.

Border facilities in San Diego don’t have the operational capacity to deal with the numbers of migrants entering the region, and a number of loopholes in the Biden administration’s new border policies have made it tougher to deport certain people crossing the border.

Unaccompanied children, people with medical issues and migrants from so-called “hard to remove” countries (such as those which do not permit charter repatriation flights) can stay in the US, according to Border Patrol documents previously reported by The Post.

According to internal federal data, Border Patrol has released roughly 400 migrants into Texas’ Rio Grande Valley region, where the flights are landing, since the Biden administration’s asylum restrictions started on June 6. —>READ MORE HERE

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