Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott slammed New York City Democrats as “inhumane” during an appearance in the Big Apple Wednesday morning – and blamed President Biden’s border policies for the tragic fentanyl poisoning of a toddler at a Bronx daycare.
Referring to his controversial enforcement policies to keep migrants from illegally crossing the southern border, he said: “Democrats or community leaders in New York City, whatever the case may be, say ‘It is inhumane to do what [I’m] doing.’
“Let’s talk about what’s inhumane. What’s inhumane is a one-year-old child dying in New York because of fentanyl,” Abbott, 65, told The Post at the Yale Club following an event at the Manhattan Institute.
The governor’s comment referred to Nicholas Feliz Dominici, who died earlier this month when he inhaled fentanyl – a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin – at a daycare which later revealed to be a drug front.
Abbott also slammed Biden’s border policies, saying they allow ruthless Mexican cartels to smuggle fentanyl and other drugs into the US.
“Every state in America now is a border state. Every community is a border community. In addition to the migrants, whether they be in New York city or wherever, fentanyl is pouring all across this country,” he claimed.
“To think you had a one-year-old child in New York exposed to fentanyl, probably because of the open border policies put in place by Joe Biden, that’s inhumane.
The conservative governor – who declined to say whether he planned to meeting with Mayor Eric Adams or Gov. Kathy Hochul on his visit – has come under fire over his decision to bus nearly 40,000 migrants from Texas to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other self-declared sanctuary cities across the US.
Buses laden with hundreds of migrants bound for New York left Texas just last Friday – despite Gov. Hochul’s insistence that there is no room for them.
When asked how the Empire State should cope with new arrivals settling long term, the governor once again passed the buck and blamed Biden.
“There’s one solid piece of advice, and [New York officials] are beginning to follow it — the challenge the city of New York and the state of New York are dealing with is caused by one person, Joe Biden,” he said.
“Joe Biden can flip that switch any day and stop New York dealing with the consequences of an open border. Unless and until that is done New York and other states are going to continue to deal with this.
“They must travail on their President for more than just money, they need a change in policy — they need to demand what all Americans expect, and that is the Biden administration will follow the rule of law and stop illegal immigration into the United States.”
Although the Biden administration said in May it would get tough on migration and enforce stricter laws on who would be allowed into the country to seek asylum, that hasn’t happened. August alone saw 180,000 migrants admitted to the country to pursue asylum claims and for 2023 the number stands at 1.23 million.
Abbott – whose state shares a 1,200 mile border with Mexico along the Rio Grande River – has long insisted the Biden administration does not enforce border policy effectively.
“The border between the United States and Mexico is the most dangerous land crossing in the world. That is inhumane. It can be stopped in one single day, in one single way, and that is for Joe Biden to enforce the current immigration laws on the books,” he ranted to The Post.
Abbott’s latest comments come after a similarly heated statement last week, when he accused the Biden administration of cutting razor wire Lone Star State officials had installed to keep migrants from crossing at a non-designated entry point near the town of Eagle Pass.