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U.S. NEWS Friday 22 July 2022
Governors’ immigrant-busing strategy hits home for mayors

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and White House press secre-
MORGAN LEE tary Karine Jean-Pierre said
Associated Press Tuesday that the admin-
NEW YORK (AP) — Two Re- istration was looking into
publican border-state gov- the mayors’ concerns. She
ernors who are investing said it was “shameful that
billions of dollars in immi- some governors are using
gration enforcement and migrants as a political tool,
spending hours at the podi- as a political play.”
um blasting Biden adminis- The state of Texas has vol-
tration policies have found untarily bused more than
indirect support for their ar- 6,000 migrants to Wash-
guments from two unlikely ington since mid-April as
sources: Democratic May- Abbott casts himself as a
ors Muriel Bowser, of Wash- counterweight to Biden on
ington, and Eric Adams, of immigration, insisting that
New York. “every American commu-
The mayors’ recent over- nity is a border commu-
tures for federal aid came nity.”
in response to Texas and Abbott’s busing is just one
Arizona busing migrants element of an increasingly
away from the border, a aggressive expansion of his
months-old practice that immigration enforcement
has been long on political A group of Brazilian migrants make their way around a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, powers into the traditional
theater but short on practi- Ariz., seeking asylum in the U.S. after crossing over from Mexico, June 8, 2021. domain of U.S. govern-
cal impact. Associated Press ment. Abbott authorized
While city leaders strongly state forces this month to
criticize Govs. Greg Abbott, destinations, leaving many sponsibility to meet the mo- Republicans on the House apprehend migrants and
of Texas, and Doug Ducey, at Union Station, near the ment,” the council mem- Homeland Security Com- return them to the U.S.-
of Arizona, their requests U.S. Capitol and the White bers wrote, while also cas- mittee wrote. “Doesn’t feel Mexico border, where Tex-
for money have bolstered House. tigating Abbott and Ducey great, does it?” as has spent more than $3
the governors’ narratives “This is a very significant is- for showing “no regard for Ducey seized on Adams’ billion in state funds on a
about immigration putting sue,” Bowser said Sunday people who are exercising incorrect statement that massive security appara-
unusual strains on Ameri- on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” their human right to seek Arizona was busing mi- tus, without stemming the
can communities, even Under pressure to provide asylum.” grants to New York, noting flow of migrants.
though Adams said — in- financial support, Bowser Republicans who have it was sending them only to Arizona says it has bused
correctly — Tuesday that says she wants the federal sharply critical of the White Washington. 1,151 migrants to Washing-
the two states are paying government to help. The House have barely con- “Mayor Adams needs to ton since May. About one
migrants to go to New York. City Council told the mayor tained their glee. get his facts straight and of every four named New
Washington Mayor Bowser last week that volunteer “Looks like Mayor Bowser pay closer attention to York as their destination,
says asylum-seekers are groups are “burned out is starting to feel a glimpse what’s really occurring be- about one in five says New
being “tricked” with free and overwhelmed.” of what it’s like to be a cause our nation’s security Jersey, and many of the
bus rides that don’t get “Now that the border has border community under depends on it,” he wrote rest were headed to Geor-
close enough to their final come to D.C., it is our re- the #BidenBorderCrisis,” on Twitter. gia or stay in Washington.q

CVS seeks verification on drugs with

possible abortion use

By TOM MURPHY quest comes after the U.S. ing their diagnosis on the
AP Health Writer Supreme Court last month prescriptions.
CVS Health is asking phar- overturned Roe v. Wade, DeAngelis said CVS Health
macists in some states to the 1973 decision that had will still fill prescriptions for
verify that a few of the pre- provided a constitutional miscarriages or ectopic
scriptions they provide will right to abortion. The rul- pregnancies, which grow
not be used end a preg- ing is expected to lead to outside the womb and are
nancy. abortion bans in roughly not viable. A CVS Health product is displayed at a store in North Andover,
A spokesman said Thursday half the states. “We will continue to focus Mass., Monday, May 3, 2021.
that the drugstore chain re- DeAngelis said state laws on delivering care to our Associated Press
cently started doing this for that restrict the dispens- patients while complying
methotrexate and misopro- ing of medications used with state laws and federal
stol, two drugs used in med- for abortions have forced guidance that continues to
ication abortions but also the company to start the evolve,” DeAngelis said in not to discriminate against tol prescribed to help deal
to treat other conditions. validations. He noted that an email. women over the prescrip- with a severe stomach ul-
Spokesman Mike DeAnge- some of the laws come The Supreme Court deci- tions they seek. cer.
lis said the policy started with criminal penalties. sion has put pharmacies The administration noted Methotrexate also is used
the first week in July in Ala- The drugstore chain, which in the middle of an intense that examples of discrimi- to treat several types of
bama, Arkansas, Idaho, is based in Woonsocket, national debate. Earlier this nation could include a cancers as well as rheuma-
Oklahoma, and Texas. Rhode Island, is asking care month, the Biden adminis- pharmacy that refuses to fill toid arthritis, according to
The drugstore chain’s re- providers to help by includ- tration warned pharmacies a prescription of misopros- the Mayo Clinic.q