White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says migrant flights and bus trips from Florida and Texas are not solutions but "political stunts."
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This comes as reports of another flight carrying migrants is expected to land in President Joe Biden's home state of Delaware Tuesday.
"What I can tell you that our heads up did not come from Governor DeSantis, because his only goal is, as he's made it really quite clear, is to create chaos and use immigrants fleeing communism as political pawns," said Jean-Pierre. "So it's about creating political theater for him. It's not about getting to a solution. We have a solution in front of us that we are happy to to have bipartisanship on on an issue that has been a broken system. When we look at the immigration system."
Republican governors have been sending more migrants released at the U.S. border with Mexico to Democratic strongholds, raising questions about their legal status, how they are lured on board transportation and the cost to taxpayers.
Florida's Ron DeSantis flew about 50 Venezuelans last week to the small, upscale island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. During the weekend, Texas' Greg Abbott bused more migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris' Washington home.
U.S. authorities are grappling with unusually large numbers of migrants crossing the border from Mexico amid rapidly changing demographics. The administration said Monday that people from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua accounted for more than one of three migrants stopped at the border in August. Authorities stopped migrants 2.15 million times from October through August, the first time above 2 million during the government's fiscal year.
Since April, Texas has bused about 8,000 migrants to Washington, 2,200 to New York and 300 to Chicago. Arizona bused more than 1,800 to Washington since May, while the city of El Paso, Texas, bused more than 1,100 to New York since Aug. 23.