Texas has bused more than 95,000 migrants to so-called sanctuary cities across the US, according to Gov. Greg Abbott, who on Tuesday warned the “transportation mission” would keep rolling until President Biden gets a handle on the border crisis.
The Big Apple has been the most popular destination as the Lone Star State has shipped 33,600 migrants to the city since August 2022, according to figures released by Abbott’s office last week.
During the same period, Texas has shipped more than 28,000 migrants to Chicago, while another 12,500 have been sent to Washington, DC since April 2022.
Another 13,800 migrants have been sent to Denver since last May while 3,400 have gone to Philadelphia since November 2022. An additional 1,300 migrants have reached Los Angeles since June.
While officials in those cities have bemoaned how the influx of migrants have stretched local resources thin, Abbott said border towns still deal with more migrants on a regular basis.
“Sanctuary cities like NYC & Chicago have seen only a FRACTION of what overwhelmed Texas border towns face daily,” he said in a tweet Tuesday.
“We will continue our transportation mission until Biden reverses course on his open border policies.”
Abbott’s office said in a news release the Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas National Guard have worked together to “fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called it “shameful” to put migrants on buses and planes en route to other cities.
Meanwhile New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed Texas again on Tuesday for creating “chaos” in Gotham.
“What Governor Abbott has done and his total reckless disregard for using people as pawns, he just wants to create chaos and we can’t be so stagnant that we don’t respond to his shift,” Adams said.
Adams signed an executive order last month in an attempt to limit the number of buses rolling into the city with asylum seekers.
The order requires charter bus companies to alert City Hall 32-hours before they plan on dropping migrants off, and limiting the transports to one location in Manhattan between 8:30 a.m. and noon.
“We’re dealing with a person who just wants to disrupt,” said Adams, who wants to add trains and planes to that executive order.
New York City has seen more than 160,000 migrants arrive since the spring of 2022.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson last week pleaded for the federal government to help get a handle on the migrant crisis, warning “the entire country that is now at stake” if the feds don’t get involved.