The bus, which was carrying 14 nationals of Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia, left the asylum seekers outside the building housing the Fox News office in Washington, which broke the story. Other media organizations are located in the building. The first bus carrying immigrants from Texas arrived Wednesday. Immigrants, who are legally in the country awaiting a formal decision on their asylum applications, have voluntarily agreed to be transported by bus to Washington as part of the Abbott initiative. Immigrants entering the United States without prior permission to apply for asylum must prove that they have a “credible fear” of persecution if they return home. In some cases, these immigrants are allowed to live freely in the United States while their claims are being heard by immigration courts. Many Texas border communities have been complaining for years about a disproportionate share of the cost of hosting asylum seekers, and also serve as a first landing point for many undocumented immigrants who cross the border secretly. And a wide range of policies, immigration restraint groups and others have made claims linking asylum seekers to illegal immigration and local crime rates. “They will see all these people invading Washington, DC, as if they had invaded our border states, and it may make them realize how bad it is,” James Comer (R-Ky.) Told Fox. News Thursday. “Every state is flooded with illegals, which brings with it fentanyl, human trafficking and increased crime,” he added. A 2020 working paper from the Cato Liberation Institute found “basically… no connection” between crime rates and illegal immigration in Texas between 2012 and 2018. However, many Republicans are doubling immigration and border security as medium-term issues amid an expected increase in the number of unauthorized crossings this summer. Immigrant groups sue ICE over information on alternative detention plans O’Rourke criticizes Biden for ending Title 42 without immigrant plan Republicans are pushing hard because the Biden administration has decided to end Title 42, a Trump-era border management policy that used the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to deny immigrants their right to asylum. While the policy was seen by many immigration experts as a failure, both as a supposed health measure and as a border management tool, its termination in late May could prompt smugglers to present the policy change as a relaxation of U.S. border security. policies. These messages, added to seasonal immigration patterns and the changing global immigration landscape, have worried many experts that this summer could bring record numbers of immigrants to the US-Mexico border, both seeking asylum and trying to cross illegally.
