Liberal cities crying foul over Abbott, Desantis migrant transports have record of bussing out homeless

Some liberal cities that have in recent weeks been crying foul over moves by Republican governors to bus migrants to sanctuary jurisdictions across the country have themselves used buses to transport homeless people out of their cities.

Texas and Arizona have bussed more than 10,000 illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago – all cities that describe themselves as “sanctuary cities.” Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week flew approximately 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.

The flights and buses have drawn a barrage of criticism from liberal city mayors and the Biden administration. The White House accused governors of treating migrants like “chattel.”

Los Angeles Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a federal probe into the migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard and has called such moves “morally reprehensible.”

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Officials in D.C. and New York City have also been critical of the buses into their states, with NYC Mayor Eric Adams calling Texas Gov. Abbott’s moves “anti-American.”

But a number of those states have themselves engaged in bussing, not of migrants but of homeless people out of their cities.

Fox News Digital reported this week how Newsom launched “Homeward Bound” when serving as San Francisco mayor – a program that gave homeless people a one-way Greyhound bus ticket out of Frisco.

“Remember, the vast majority of people that are out on the sidewalks are not from San Francisco originally, and they all have some contacts somewhere, a godparent, a mother, brother, sister, uncle, son, daughter,” Newsom argued at the time. “And those are the people, beyond anything else, that can help turn their lives around.”

The program has since been integrated into California’s Access…