“The Border Has Come to D.C.”: GOP Governors Have Successfully Created a Migrant Crisis in Washington

M. Felix has taken in at least seven refugee families since Texas Governor Greg Abbott started busing migrants to the U.S. Capitol in the spring. The Washington, D.C., resident, who chose to remain partially anonymous, part of the volunteer response to the city’s recent influx of people apprehended on America’s southern border, says they have helped mothers who arrived after being assaulted in front of their children, fathers with broken ribs, families that had been “dumped on the side of the road in front of Union Station”—sometimes in the middle of the night. Felix has slept on their couch while… Read Full Article