Gov. Greg Abbott looked for a point of agreement with Mayor Eric Adams: blaming the president.
NEW YORK — Everything’s bigger in Texas — including the humanitarian crisis of helping migrants.have blasted his continued efforts
Abbott both defended his program bussing migrants from the border to sanctuary cities like New York and trivialized Mayor Eric Adams’ complaints about the strain it has put on the city’s resources. The Adams administration says nearly 120,000 migrants have come to the city since last summer, many of them without shelter, jobs and support systems. More than 60,000 are currently in the city’s care through a network of shelters in hotels, tents and office buildings.as a catalyst for the recent increase in asylum-seekers coming to the city. Earlier this month, the mayor called him “a madman.” So City Hall saw Abbott’s first visit to the city in years as an insult.
Abbott, a Republican, put the blame on President Joe Biden, saying that Texas has bussed just 15,800 migrants to New York. That’s a fraction of the migrants who have come to the city through either private transportation or supported by nonprofit organizations. Abbott added that the buses were necessary to relieve overwhelmed small border towns.in other parts of New York and has lobbied Democratic Gov.
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