>These people are likely not being moved voluntarily,

Everyone who is bussed signs a consent form that is available in multiple languages.

The consent form with the migrant's signature can be verified via barcode bracelet which also includes their ID info. Bizarrely, politicians here are really mad at TX providing migrants with a form of ID.

You can find multiple articles, such as this one, where migrants are thankful for free bus rides to friendlier jurisdictions like D.C. and NYC.

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>potentially being misled

Economic migrants were misled by coyotes who promised them citizenship in the US; not the TX governor who truthfully and accurately told them that the mayor of NYC would welcome them with open arms.

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>some of these may not be legal to send them

The migrants being bussed here have been released from federal custody. Why would it not be legal to offer them a free bus ride?

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>they're being sent far from the immigration courts handling their cases. How will they report to their hearings if they are thousands of miles away? etc

Migrants released into the U.S. are given instructions on checking in with immigration. They are not bound to a specific office and at this point they haven't even been assigned a court date or a judge yet.

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>Using people as pawns in stunts like this needs to be halted.

Agreed. The mayor of our city shouldn't have talked so much shit and exploited the migrant crisis to get some good PR which inspired the governor of TX to call his bluff.

Publicity stunts beget publicity stunts. Go figure.