I have several reasons Point one: Texas has more red state security than Virginia where those migrants will end up. Migrants can't afford to live in DC. They are not going to be moving into an apartment in George Town a week after being dropped there. They are going to have to head somewhere they can stay. Likely with family. That's going to be Virginia. Everyone I know who lives in Maryland regrets living there, and wishes they could move out. Why would new people move there? Job availability is also higher in Virginia, even though job availability is high everywhere there is just going to be more pull into Virginia. The state seemed doomed to become blue. We had seen it coming for decades because of demographic changes and population distribution changes, but it recently turned red again. It seems as if the hope seemed narrow but there is a chance Virginia could stay red against the demographic pressure if the state plays the cards right. If more migrants than we already have are dumped on us there is no hope. That's it. Virginia is blue. Thanks. Point two: It facilitates the migrants and gives them more motivation to cross the border. The migrants are being put on buses voluntarily. That means the ones who do go on the bus see going to the DC area as better. You've sweetened the deal for them. These are ones that were fine hopping the border to be in Texas which they would have settled for but were even more thrilled to go to the DC area. Now the ones that wouldn't have even considered it without DC as an option will come too. Point three: It's not a punishment for DC politicos. Texas politicians see them as a blight, but that's because they are sane. The politicos here have been begging for immigration and have largely got it. DC area illegal immigrants are different than Texan immigrants. We don't have border hoppers. We have visa over stayers. Ours come on a plane. But now you let the political class here know that the more border hopping they help facilitate, they will get bonus immigrants from that cohort as well, you just gave them every reason to not help you seal up the border. Point four: Aligned with point three that it's not going to help Texas passive aggressively lobby their position like Abbot things. The reality is it helps illegals lobby their position. This is where real political power is. Putting them in proximity to the real decision makers of this country is just going to have their case presented more vocally, as if it isn't already vocal enough in this area. Virginia has always been where the real power is. More presidents have been Virginians than any other state for a reason. The real power in this country doesn't reside in DC, but where DC's lawyer class lives and works in Arlington and Alexandria. When you live in this area you automatically get more political say and the ear of people who have political say. This is exactly Texas's problem. They feel ignored and like their problems are ignored. The fact that they feel that way, and are largely right in their feelings, absolutely demonstrates that proximity to authority/power, or the lack of it, provides the difference between no say in what happens like they have verses having a say. So sending them to DC will lobby against Texas's needs, not for it.