Five more buses loaded with people from other countries arrived and unloaded in New York thanks to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. It's the biggest one-day arrival of people seeking asylum since his border campaign began.
A bus carrying migrants from Texas arrives at Port Authority Bus Terminal on August 10, 2022 in New York. - Texas has sent thousands of migrants from the border state into Washington, DC, New York City, and other areas. Five more busloads of migrants who crossed the border from Mexico into Texas reached New York City on Wednesday as Gov. Greg Abbott escalated his feud with the city’s mayor with a victory lap op-ed in the New York Post.
The New York arrivals are an expansion of Abbott’s plan to bus migrants voluntarily to Washington, D.C., in April — an effort that was initially designed to antagonize President Joe Biden as Abbott criticized him over border security. But in recent months, Abbott has gleefully stoked new feuds with the Democratic mayors in Washington and New York as they’ve complained about the impact of migrants in their cities.
Gov. Abbott and NYC mayor Eric Adams have gone back and forth since Texas began busing migrants from the Texas-Mexico border to the Big Apple. Some Republicans have observed the busing as a messaging stunt rather than an effective policy solution to the state’s border dilemmas. U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, told CNN on Sunday that Abbott is "sending a message."
Brandon Rottinghaus, a political scientist at the University of Houston, said the feud with New York makes Abbott a national name in the middle of his campaign against Democrat Beto O’Rourke and ahead of a possible presidential bid in 2024."Whether he runs for president or not is beside the point," Rottinghaus said. "He’s national headline news, and that gets the attention of Republican donors and conservative activists around the country.
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