On Wednesday night’s CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Margaret Brennan and correspondent Nancy Chen bemoaned the fact that Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is taking the migrants who are pouring across the U.S./Mexico border and putting them onto busses to New York City and Washington D.C. to let their liberal mayors handle them. Instead of pointing out how if President Joe Biden secured the southern border (and the fact this is what the federal government has been doing to border states and towns), this wouldn’t be happening, Chen simply parroted Democrat Party talking points calling Abbott’s bussing of migrants “inhumane” and a “political stunt.”
Introducing the segment, Brennan claimed, “there is a growing political battle between Texas and New York as Governor Greg Abbott continues to send thousands of migrants from the border to Manhattan and Washington, D.C.” Adding “it's part of the Republican Governor's effort to criticize the Biden administration's immigration policy.”
Taking over for Brennan, Chen whined that “as nearly 100 migrants arrived in New York City from Texas this morning, they stepped off buses and into a political firestorm.”
Attempting to use migrants as political weapons to make Republicans seem cruel, Chen cried about how some of the migrants were tired after their bus ride to New York: “Johnny, a 38-year-old migrant from Venezuela, said he was tired and stressed during his trip but came to the U.S to provide a better future for his children.”
“Sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to Washington, D.C., and now New York. The mayors of those cities calling the move inhumane as they both asked the federal government for help,” Chen huffed.
Attempting to tell Abbott’s side of the story, Chen reported that “Abbott says he's sending migrants away, in part to protest President Biden's immigration policies,” moments later she began shrieking that “critics call it a political stunt, with families caught in the middle.”
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CBS Evening News
August 10, 2022
6:39:40 p.m. EasternMARGARET BRENNAN: Tonight, there is a growing political battle between Texas and New York as Governor Greg Abbott continues to send thousands of migrants from the border to Manhattan and Washington, D.C. It's part of the Republican Governor's effort to criticize the Biden administration's immigration policy. Here is CBS's Nancy Chen.
NANCY CHEN: As nearly 100 migrants arrived in New York City from Texas this morning, they stepped off buses and into a political firestorm. Johnny, a 38-year-old migrant from Venezuela, said he was tired and stressed during his trip but came to the U.S to provide a better future for his children. He's one of more than 6,500 asylum seekers already processed and released by DHS. Sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to Washington, D.C., and now New York. The mayors of those cities calling the move inhumane as they both asked the federal government for help.
NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS: There's nothing successful about treating people with this lack of dignity.
WASHINGTON D.C. MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER: We have a growing humanitarian crisis that we expect that the federal government expects is going to only worsen.
CHEN: More than 165 buses have left Texas since April, leading to scenes like this at Washington Union Station. Abbott says he's sending migrants away, in part to protest President Biden's immigration policies.
TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT: We're full in the state of Texas. Our communities are overrun.
CHEN: Critics call it a political stunt, with families caught in the middle. Johanna left Venezuela with her children and is seeking asylum. She says, "Everything we endured during the journey-- the sadness, the pain, the fear, and being here right now-- I feel the sacrifice was worth it.”
But one lawyer helping migrants said not everyone wanted to end up in New York. Still, with more buses likely coming, the city has opened 11 additional shelters to help house them.
