NYC Mayor’s About-Face on Illegal Immigration Is Hypocritical, Abbott Says

The Center SquareOctober 10, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told The Center Square that New York City’s mayor and other Democratic leaders are hypocritical for criticizing him “for helping out our local communities by busing out migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago.” His comments were in response to New York City Mayor Eric Adams declaring an emergency Friday over a “humanitarian crisis” stemming from illegal immigration at the southern border.

Adams first criticized Abbott for busing illegal immigrants to New York City at a time when Texas was being overrun by a surge in illegal immigration at the southern border. Abbott first started busing illegal aliens to Washington, whose mayor also criticized the Texas governor. Abbott said it was President Joe “Biden and his administration moving migrants themselves in the middle of the night,” adding that Texas recently busing people to so-called sanctuary cities “is really nothing different than what the Biden administration is doing.”

After millions of illegal immigrants began pouring through the southern border after the Biden administration altered immigration and enforcement policies established by Congress, it also began flying them to locations across the country without notifying elected officials in those states, prompting Florida to sue. After Abbott began busing them north, Democrats like Adams said doing so was inhumane.

Adams declared an emergency over Abbott’s busing initiative on Friday. In response, Abbott said, “Sanctuary cities like New York City experience a FRACTION of what Texas border communities face every day. We’ll continue busing migrants to NYC, DC, & Chicago to relieve our overwhelmed border towns until Biden does his job to secure the border.”

Adams says roughly 17,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in New York City since the spring will fill the city’s shelters by over 100,000 before the end of the calendar year and