I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store. This is on point. When Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, used

taxpayer money to send 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, he said

he wanted to prove a point.

If you have folks that are inclined to think Florida is a good place, our message to them

is we are not a sanctuary state and it's better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction.

And yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures.

His move got a lot of attention, but it was mostly political theater. Those migrants were

never in Florida. They came from Texas where governor Greg Abbott has put thousands of

migrants on buses to Washington, D.C. since August and to New York City since April. Back

then, Abbott told Fox News that the state can't cope with the number of migrants crossing

the border.

In any one sector in the state of Texas, we have more than 5,000 people come across that

sector every single day. And so listen, we're full in the state of Texas. Our communities

are overrun and I started busing people to Washington, D.C. when local officials could

not handle the number of people that had come across our border.

Since then, the number of Venezuelans crossing the border has only increased. In August,

the U.S. Border Patrol intercepted more than 25,000 Venezuelans and increased a 43% over

the month before. So this hour, we're going to take a closer look at what makes this latest

wave of migration different from past events. And let's start in Texas for a reality check

on the situation there.

Ariel Garcia is an immigration reporter for the Texas Tribune. He's based in El Paso, Texas

on the U.S. Mexico border. Welcome to on point, Ariel.

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