Texas Governor Greg Abbott fiercely rebuked New York City Mayor Eric Adams this week, accusing him of not understanding the state’s migrant crisis, after Adams publicly denounced Abbott’s policy of busing migrants to the city.
“The mayor may have made it to be mayor of New York, but he could not last a week in Texas,” Abbott told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “They have so few migrants in New York compared to what we deal with every single day.”
The hostility between the two politicians was sparked by Adams’ incendiary remarks on Thursday, when he warned of commuting migrants to New York, branding Abbott a “madman”.
The fact is that migrating to the United States has skyrocketed in the past two years. According to data released by United States Customs and Border Protection, over 1.93 million illegal immigrants have been encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2023 alone. This, followed the 1,734,686 encountered in fiscal year 2021 and 2,378,944 in fiscal year 2022.
In light of this migration surge, Abbott chastised Adams for accusing him of allowing humanities destruction.
“It’s outrageous that he would make a comment like that,” Abbott declared. “What’s maddening is the fact that in New York and Chicago and D.C. and L.A. they put out policies self-proclaiming that they’re sanctuary cities and they love to promote these liberal ideologies until they have to live up and apply them.”
Thereby condemning the liberal approach to immigration, Abbott made it clear that the “open-borders” policy employed by sanctuary cities simply does not work.
“This is a day of reckoning for all of the United States realizing that the liberal policies of open borders will not work in this country,” Abbott declared.
It is evident that the days of offering free passes to illegal immigration are now over. As Abbott concluded, “the policies of sanctuary cities and letting everyone live for free simply do not work.”