Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar commented on the increase in migrants to the United States, and says both Republicans and Democrats alike are feeling the strain.
"It should be noted that this isn’t just a blue state or red state issue, it’s a national crisis and blue states are feeling the pain that states like Texas have dealt with for a long time," Hegar said in a Sept. 8 post on X, formerly Twitter.
The U.S. houses the most international migrants than any other country in the world, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Those numbers increased dramatically after the COVID-19 pandemic and former President Donald Trump's policies border policies ended.
The newer Biden administration has since made the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) longer for migrants who qualified for such. With a restriction on Biden's orders to expel asylum seekers, 2022 brought about a major influx of people seeking residence in the U.S., particularly from the southwest border. This number of migrants from all over continues to grow, Migration Policy Institute reported.
In the Axios article Heger shared with his X post, the influx of migrants is now spreading in a major way to big cities. Republican governors reportedly tried appealing to President Joe Biden to bus their ever-increasing number of migrants to bigger cities.
Hearing the stories of migrants being able to move to big cities in the U.S. reportedly caused even more migrants to want to enter the U.S. as well. However, these migrants end up sleeping in droves spread throughout police stations and airports as they wait for their work permits to be accepted, Axios reported. Because of this influx, even big cities are now feeling the strain of increasing immigration that was had previously been more contained to the border states.
Hegar graduated from Texas A&M University then went on to graduate with a Master of Arts and law degree from St. Mary's University and his Masters of Law from the University of Arkansas, his website reported. He currently serves as Texas' 36th comptroller and has filled this position since he was first elected in 2014. Being the primary financial officer of the state, he has reorganized his agency, making it more efficient and less confusing and burdensome for the employees as well as for the people of Texas.
