Caught in feud between Texas and White House, migrants arrive in Washington, D.C.

Texas officials on Wednesday transported a group of Latin American migrants and asylum-seekers recently released from federal custody to Washington, D.C., as part of an intensifying effort by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to rebuke the Biden administration's policies along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Twenty-four migrants from Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela were transported by bus from the Texas border to the heart of the nation's capital, where they were dropped off by state officials, Abbott's office said. The migrants had been previously processed and released by federal border officials to continue their asylum cases in the U.S.

For many of the migrants, their arrival in the nation's capital after a 30-hour bus trip paid for by Texas was a layover in their journey to other destinations across the U.S. where they have family members or friends, according to Sister Sharlet Wagner from the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington.