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Press release from Abbott's office says state will offer charters buses * and flights* to send migrants to D.C. Also says the transportation would have to be VOLUNTARY on the part of the migrants. A little different from the message of the press conference... https://t.co/3C5z6SJZP1

— James Barragán 🌟 (@James_Barragan) April 6, 2022

Told ya he couldn’t do it.

It’s a gimmick. #txlege https://t.co/pVFckS49WC

— Matt Schaefer (@RepMattSchaefer) April 6, 2022

Matt Scaeffer is a Republican, from the part of the state that gave us Louie Gohmert.

As always, there's the problem of the briar patch, and who's thrown into it:

Denise Gilman, the co-director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, said the program could still raise concerns about coercive conduct by the state given how it was announced.

"It seems very important to the state to take migrants to D.C. There's a strong interest in getting migrants on those buses," she said. "They had to say it's voluntarily but everything about the program suggests it would be coercive and therefore of questionable legality. If it's truly voluntarily, why is it only going to D.C.?"

"There's nothing about what was said the first time around that makes any sense from a policy or legal perspective so now they're trying to see if there's any legal veneer they can put on this," she said. "But you can't put lipstick on a pig. They were pretty clear about what they were trying to achieve."

Gilman also said Abbott could be making the job of some migrants easier if their destination was outside of Texas and they voluntarily got on the buses.

"There's a huge Salvadoran population in D.C., so yeah, free bus ride to get to where you were going anyway," she said.

I’m beginning to see a Democratic Governor in Texas in the very near future.