{"id":233410,"date":"2022-04-13T22:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/migrants-say-they-took-texas-governor-abbott-s-bus-to-washington-so-they-could-get-closer-to-florida"},"modified":"2022-04-13T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:07:26","slug":"migrants-say-they-took-texas-governor-abbott-s-bus-to-washington-so-they-could-get-closer-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/migrants-say-they-took-texas-governor-abbott-s-bus-to-washington-so-they-could-get-closer-to-florida","title":{"rendered":"Migrants say they took Texas governor Abbott&#8217;s bus to Washington so they could get closer to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott &#8217;s latest anti-immigrant stunt could end up creating more headaches for another Republican governor. On Wednesday, a bus carrying a group of South and Central American migrants arrived outside the Capitol Hill office building which houses the Washington , DC bureaux of Fox News, NBC News and C-SPAN. The bus had been chartered by the Texas Department of Emergency Management on Mr Abbott&#8217;s orders, and was sent to Washington so the Lone Star State governor could claim to be dropping the non-white asylum seekers at President Joe Biden&#8217;s feet. Last week, Mr Abbott announced plans to forcibly bus all migrants entering Texas to the Capitol steps, but scaled back the plans after it was pointed out that he lacks the authority to compel any migrant to set foot on a bus headed out of his jurisdiction. Instead, Mr Abbott changed course and said the bus trip to Washington would be voluntary. A group of migrants who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott&#8217;s latest anti-immigrant stunt could end up creating more headaches for another Republican governor. On Wednesday, a bus carrying a group of South and Central American migrants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,75,42,43],"class_list":["post-233410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-capitol","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}