EL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned border sheriffs here Monday that they will face a “cataclysmic” number of migrants coming across the border beginning next month as he underscored his desire for a border wall and explained the use of charter buses to transport people who cross into Texas without documents to Washington, D.C.
Abbott, who has made securing the border his top campaign issue in his run for reelection, made his dire predictions at a meeting of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition here in El Paso. On May 23, the Biden administration is expected to lift Title 42, the Trump-era public health rule that uses the coronavirus pandemic to justify quickly expelling most migrants.
Abbott said border counties would be “overwhelmed” by the arrival of as many as 18,000 migrants a day based on projections from the Biden administration.
