The governors of Texas and Arizona, Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey are spending millions of dollars

to make a point.

There are too many migrants arriving in their towns and cities they say.

They can't handle all of them.

And so...

We're sending the border to Biden and his administration so they can begin to grapple with the challenges

that we are dealing with.

They're giving recent arrivals, free bus tickets, and sending them to points north.

Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York.

This has caused some amount of chaos for those cities and for the new arrivals.

And just last week it forced Washington, D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser to declare a public emergency

and to create an office for migrant affairs, which is something much more commonly seen

in places like San Antonio and San Diego near the border.

We're not a border town.

And so what we're doing today is a new normal for us.

We have to have an infrastructure in place that allows us to deal with the border crisis

that has visited us in Washington, D.C.

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