From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is a daily.

Today, when nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants showed up without warning on the wealthy island

of Martha's Vineyard, it was the culmination of a month's long strategy by two of the

country's most conservative governors to make undocumented immigration, a problem for

blue states, not just red ones. My colleague, Miriam Jordan, on how that strategy has played

out and what it's meant for the migrants caught in the middle. It's Wednesday, September

21st. Miriam, how did all of this begin? Well, with the number of migrants arriving

at the border, growing very quickly, have a very ambitious governor, Greg Abbott. Well,

thank everybody for being with us here today. I'm a joint today, who announced in early

April that he had to do something about it. Texas will be taking his own unprecedented

actions this month. And he wanted to show the country and the White House that this

shouldn't just be his problem. To help local officials, whose communities are being

overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration.

Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped

off by the Biden administration to Washington, DC. So he announced that he was going to start

putting migrants on buses and shipping them to the nation's capital.

In one question, there are places you see that you all are planning to send migrants to

as there are designated areas that you guys have been to. The first location will be

the steps of the United States capital. Right. And for an ambitious Republican governor

who wants to make the point that immigration should not just be his problem or Texas

is a problem, what could be more symbolically powerful than literally delivering migrants

from his state to the president's doorstep in Washington, DC. But Miriam, what's happening

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