Democrat-led Texas city steps up migrant busing to New York, outpacing Republican effort

Venezuelan Frederick Pinango, 28, with his three-year-old daughter Freyderlinck and his wife Julianis Contreras, 23, and others, waits to board their bus to New York at the Migrant Welcome Center managed by the city of El Paso and the Office of Emergency Management, in El Paso, Texas, U.S., October 3, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas' Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S. border security.

El Paso, which sits across the border from Juarez, Mexico, has bused roughly 7,000 migrants to New York City since late August and sent more than 1,800 to Chicago, a city-run effort that far exceeds the more ad-hoc transportation of the past.