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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Governors' immigrant-busing strategy hits home for mayors

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars in immigration enforcement and spending hours at the podium blasting Biden administration policies have found indirect support for their arguments from two unlikely sources: Democratic Mayors Muriel Bowser, of Washington, and Eric Adams, of New York.

The mayors’ recent overtures for federal aid came in response to Texas and Arizona busing migrants away from the border, a months-old practice that has been long on political theater but short on practical impact.

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