(The Center Square) – The war of words between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott escalated this week as buses of foreign nationals who’ve entered the U.S. illegally arrive in Adams’ city. The buses arriving at the Port Authority generally carry between 50 and 100 people. Abbott says that’s compared to the more than 5,000 apprehended a day in the five Border Patrol sectors in Texas at the southern border.
Border Patrol data for July indicates that 141,513 people were apprehended or recorded as gotaways illegally entering Texas.
Abbott last week invited Adams to visit the southern border in Texas to see firsthand the impact of what he calls “Biden’s border crisis.” To date, Adams hasn’t accepted the invitation.
“I already called all my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their votes,” Adams said. “And I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because we have to, for the good of America, we have to get him out of office.”
In response, Abbott told Fox News, “I kind of feel like Clint Eastwood. Go ahead, make my day.”
His campaign spokesperson told The Center Square, “We welcome the Mayor of New York City coming to Texas to help his friend Beto O’ Rourke.”
Democrat O’Rourke, who’ faces Abbott in the race for governor, is trailing in the polls. He previously ran for U.S. Senate in Texas and lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
Abbott called Adams’ complaints a “rank hypocrisy” because of New York City’s “sanctuary city” status, in which Abbott said city officials are supposed to “welcome illegal immigrants. And now, once they have to deal with the reality of it, they’re suddenly flummoxed and they cannot handle it.”
Adams, who’s tweeted pictures of himself greeting the buses as they arrive, said, “Greg Abbott used innocent people as political pawns to manufacture a crisis. New Yorkers are stepping up to fix it – that’s our city’s values. But we need the federal government’s help – money, technical assistance and more.”
In response, Abbott tweeted, “Mayor Adams has no idea what Texas deals with every day at our southern border. Despite its sanctuary city policy, NYC can’t handle even a fraction of the chaos Biden has created. This should be a wake-up call to the Biden administration to do its job and secure the border.”
He also said, “Biden’s open border policies have led to record levels of illegal crossings, deadly drugs, and human smuggling.”
Texas has so far bused more than 6,500 people to Washington, D.C., and now New York City, since April.
The Democratic mayors of New York and Washington, D.C., Abbott said, “have now seen a fraction of what Texas faces daily. They should call on Biden to honor his duty and preserve America’s national security.”
Abbott’s press secretary, Renae Eze, told The Center Square, “What’s horrific is the thousands of illegal immigrants overrunning and overwhelming our border communities with populations smaller than a New York City borough, and Mayor Adams is hypocritically upset about welcoming a few dozen into his sanctuary city.”
Eze said everyone on the buses “willingly chose to go to New York City, having signed a voluntary consent waiver, available in multiple languages, upon boarding that they agreed on the destination.”
And if the mayor “wants a solution to this crisis,” she said, “he should call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border.
“The Biden Administration is allowing historic levels of illegal immigrants, weapons, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to surge into our state and dumping migrants in our border towns with little to no help provided,” she added. “Texas continues stepping up to respond to this crisis by deploying Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers, building our own border wall … and now sending illegal immigrants back to the border.”
Since Abbott launched the state’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, a multi-agency effort has apprehended 290,700 foreign nationals who entered Texas illegally through Mexico, made more than 18,000 criminal arrests, and brought more than 15,400 felony charges. Texas DPS agents have seized over 325.9 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill every adult and child in the United States. These numbers exclude those of federal law enforcement agencies.
” Adams said. “And I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because we have to,”
#1. Define “we”.
#2. “Abbott called Adams’ complaints a “rank hypocrisy” because of New York City’s “sanctuary city” status, in which Abbott said city officials are supposed to “welcome illegal immigrants. And now, once they have to deal with the reality of it, they’re suddenly flummoxed and they cannot handle it.”
“Texas has so far bused more than 6,500 people to Washington, D.C., and now New York City, since April.”
The Democratic mayors of New York and Washington, D.C., Abbott said, “have now seen a fraction of what Texas faces daily.
They should call on Biden to honor his duty and preserve America’s national security.”
You’ve got to be kidding. Calling on Bite-Me Biden to honor his duty is about like calling on his father Satan to tell the truth. Neither one of them is ever going to happen.
AND why should adams, even be allowed to ‘Send new yorkers, to do political activist duties’, by knocking on doors to get folks to vote against abbot anyway??
IF THEY DON’T LIVE IN TEXAS, to me, they shouldn’t have a bloody say in the matter!
yankees gonna come to texas and knock on doors–they are gonna go home hurtin’
and beto gonna come for the guns -his butt is gonna look like a pin cushion-when he gets the guns lol-
If they show up on my doorstep in East Texas. they better know how to do the Mexican bullet dance or may lose a few toes. We out in God’s country don’t knock on each other neighbor’s doors you know and trust with your lives, your cars and your cattle and hound dogs. Strangers bearing Democrat offers of free stuff are just viewed as wild game in need of harvesting. As for Beto O’Rourke, I can’t wait to see the wheel chair tread marks Abbot leaves on his backside after the election. When Adam’s advertises New York as a sanctuary city, the criminals, the socially dependent, the self-serving and the entitlement indoctrinated all responded. What else did he expect after publicly expectorating that insanity for a unearned welcome, paid for of course by the diminishing productive class of New Yorkers who are reverse immigrating to Texas with their profitable and taxable businesses that socialist guys like Adams are driving out.
What’s the problem, I thought they WELCOMED Illegals in Nueva Jork ?
So Adams is “stepping up” but he want’s “The Big Guy” to stand in front of him!!!
So the leftist jerk from New York says that sending a few illegals to his city is nothing but a manufactured crisis by Abbott. Too bad the numbers of illegals crossing into Texas couldn’t enter New York so that fool mayor could see there’s a big difference in the few he sees and the hundreds of thousands that come across the borders of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona every month. It must be a requirement that in order to be a left wing liberal you have to prove just how stupid you are.
What irks my goat, is if a ‘few hundred being dropped off’ is an extential crisis. WHAT IS A FEW MILLION crossing the border then?
I suspect that you will find your reception in Texas to be a rather cold one, Mr Adams.
any one entering texas with a new york accent will immediately be ushered to eagle pass or del rio -and given a riverside seat
so they can each be presented with a dozen of their own sanctuary city residents to take home with them to new york on a free bus ride –