Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Friday he has started to send buses carrying migrants to New York City in an effort to push responsibility for border crossers to Democratic mayors and U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
The first bus arrived early on Friday at the city’s Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan. Volunteers were putting groups of migrants in taxis headed to a nearby intake center, where they said some would be processed for admission to city homeless shelters.
Abbott, who is running for a third term as governor in November elections, has sent more than 6,000 migrants to Washington since April in a broader effort to combat illegal immigration and call out Biden for his more welcoming policies.
“I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief,” Abbott said in a statement.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, another Republican, has followed Abbott’s lead and bused another 1,000 to Washington.
U.S. border authorities have made record numbers of arrests under Biden although many are repeat crossers. Some migrants who are not able to be expelled quickly to Mexico or their home countries under a COVID-era policy are allowed into the United States, often to pursue asylum claims in U.S. immigration court.
New York City Mayor Adams’ office has in recent weeks criticized the bussing efforts to Washington, saying some migrants were making their way to New York City and overwhelming its homeless shelter system.
On Friday the mayor’s Press Secretary Fabien Levy said Abbott was using “human beings as political pawns,” calling it “a disgusting, and an embarrassing stain on the state of Texas.”
Levy said New York would continue to “welcome asylum seekers with open arms, as we always have, but we are asking for resources to help do so,” calling for support from federal officials.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has also said her city’s shelter system has been taxed by migrant arrivals and last month called on the Biden administration to deploy military troops to assist with receiving the migrants, a request that has frustrated White House officials.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had declined a request for D.C. National Guard to help with the transportation and reception of migrants in the city because it would hurt the troops’ readiness.
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All sanctuary cities should welcome the illegals with open arms without begging the federal taxpayers for bailout funds.
For sure, you bet, yahoo, but the bereft Left are demonic psychopaths and will resent getting some of their own medicine, the hypocrites that they truly are! They like to dish it out but they can’t take their own medicine because they know just how damaging their own policies are; it was pure heaven when it only affected the conservative cities and states but now that it has backfired on them they are singing the blues – FUK THEM!
THE MAYORS WILL BEG THE JELLYFIS BIDEN FOR TAX MONEY TO HOUSE AND FEED THEM. IMPEACH BIDEN IN 2023 AND ALL THIS BS WILL GO AWAY. TOO BAD HE DOESENT HAVE A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK. HOPEFUL.
If you voted for “Sleepy Sketchy Joe “ and you are a sanctuary city you are now getting what YOU voted for ! Actually if you voted for any Democrat this is what you voted for time to put on your Big britches and suck it up quit your bitching.
Now you know what the southern border states are going thru. Deal with Brandon’s policies