Fixing the migrant bussing problem?

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54. Whose responsibility is this?

I agree the way it's being done is terrible. Whose responsibility is this? Why is it Abbott's responsibility to manage the bussing for the 1.2 million migrants who cross the Texas border every year?

Immigration is a national issue.

Abbott should not be the one forced to send the busses. This should not be dumped on Texas border towns of 28,000 people where 10,000 migrants show up in 3 days (Eagle Pass, Texas.) How is a town that small supposed to provide services or support or even food and water to that volume of people when 10,000 people show up in three days? Martha's Vineyard called it a humanitarian crisis when 50 migrants showed up and got rid of them within 24 hours. Their population is 15,000 people.

The Biden administration should be organizing the busses. They should have an immigration czar coordinating those phone calls to the mayors and governors that you want. They should have busses at all the border crossing checkpoints and those busses should go to all 48 states. Migrants should be spread out and given temporary guest worker permits, at a minimum. Let them do some of the minimum wage jobs we've been having trouble filling. But this should be done on the federal level, not something where border states are once again burdened. Border states are already burdened enough by our position at the border.

This won't happen because it is a PR nightmare. If Biden were to be responsible for the busses, he would lose votes in November from every voter who hated that migrants showed up in their town. So he's happy to leave Abbott holding the bag on that one. I am not happy with the way bussing is being done in terms of people being just dropped off. But I also don't think it's fair to just leave them in border states. Where is the national solution coming from the administration? Why is the anger once again directed at Texas, rather than expecting national leaders to lead?