The New York Times
The Origins of the GOP Tactic of Sending Migrants to Blue States
In the fall of 2018, President Donald Trump was pushing aides on an idea he wanted to carry out on the border — transporting immigrants who entered the country illegally to so-called sanctuary cities. The idea had simmered for months, culminating in a call Trump placed to Kirstjen Nielsen, his homeland security secretary. Trump, Nielsen’s former chief of staff recalled, wanted to round up migrants in Republican-controlled states and “bus and dump” them in major cities. He wanted to bus migrants
