Liberal east coast mayors are starting to sound like the leaders of Texas border communities, now that they are getting a taste of the border surge in the Lone Star State. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser both lamented the arrival of busloads of migrants in their cities from Texas in recent days, and are begging the White House for help. "We are reaching out to the federal government to tell them that we need help...to deal with this humanitarian crisis," said Adams over the weekend.
That request sounds very familiar to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. "We've been dealing with this exact issue (in Texas) for more than a year-and-a-half...we've dealt with over a million immigrants coming into our state," Paxton told FOX News. "I do believe the federal government should do something...not only should they help us, but they should enforce the law and stop it from happening."
Adams is blasting Gov. Greg Abbott for sending a few dozen migrants to New York City, implying that sending migrants to his city is inhumane. "This is horrific," Adams said of the bus trips. "After a month of traveling across the border, (the migrants) have to sit on a bus with no direction given to come here to New York."
But former ICE Director Tom Homan tells KTRH's Michael Berry these migrant transports are already happening on a much larger scale. "Whenever I'm flying out of the Rio Grande Valley, on every single flight I take over half (of those onboard) are illegal aliens with taxpayer-funded airline tickets to any city they choose, to New York City, to Chicago, wherever they want to go," says Homan.
Recent reports confirm that federal air marshals are even being used to transport migrants after they cross into the U.S. "This administration is facilitating alien smuggling," Homan continues.
Gov. Abbott has invited Adams and Bowser to come to the Texas border, but both have declined. "They're a bunch of hypocrites," Abbott told FOX News. "They're fine with illegal immigration flooding across our borders...as long as it stays down in Texas."
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