Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces he’s transported 95,000 migrants to Democrat run-cities and states – and says he’ll keep doing so to give them a taste of what border cities face
Texas has sent more than 95,000 migrants to sanctuary cities across the country, Governor Greg Abbott has revealed.
The Republican wrote a message in X on Tuesday announcing the success of his program to transport illegal migrants to Democratic-run cities.
He said his initiative has led to the transfer of nearly 100,000 migrants to cities including New York, Boston, Denver and Chicago — where liberal leaders are forced to find them shelter.
“Reserve towns like NYC and Chicago have seen only a fraction of what overwhelmed Texas border towns experience on a daily basis,” Abbott wrote.
“We will continue our transportation mission until Biden changes course on his open border policy.”
Illegal migrants in the New York metro area await processing after arriving in liberal cities from the southern border
Last fiscal year, Biden's presidency saw the highest number of border encounters ever.
At least 2.4 million migrants flooded the U.S. southern border in fiscal year 2023, and that figure only represents the encounters Border Patrol agents had — there are plenty of people crossing illegally who didn't come into contact with DHS officers.
That 2.4 million number equates to an average of about 6,575 encounters per day, meaning it would take a little more than two full weeks for 95,000 people crossing illegally to enter the US.
Despite the apparently high figure touted by Abbott, it represents only a small portion of the total number of unvetted foreigners entering the U.S. each year.
Even some Democratic mayors are reckoning with the fact that their cities are not equipped to handle such a significant onslaught of migrants.
In New York City in particular, Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly asked Abbott to stop transporting migrants to the Big Apple, where downtown locals have been shocked for almost a year by the numbers of migrants semi-housed in previously expensive cosmopolitan hotels. .
“We're getting in the neighborhood of 2,500 to a peak of 4,000 a week,” Adams said in an interview Tuesday, in which he also proclaimed in no uncertain terms that NYC has “no room” for the incoming migrants.
“We didn't just say we ran out of room,” Adams responded, referring to the more than 161,000 migrants who have arrived since spring 2022 and sought help from the city.
“We are literally running out of room,” the Democrat declared.
“People will end up sleeping on the streets.”
22-year-old Maria Silva (center), from Venezuela, carries her belongings to a bus outside the 6th District police station before being taken to a shelter along with other migrants staying at the station on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 . in Chicago
After processing in El Paso, Texas, migrants are loaded onto buses and shipped to Denver, Colorado
Former Fox 5 host Rosanna Scotto asked Adams what exactly it would take, the city's CEO, to “close the front door” to more migrants.
Adams responded that this was simply not possible, due to laws prohibiting both state and local officials from enforcing federal immigration laws.
“I don't have the authority to tell people they can't come to New York City,” Adams explained.
When Scotto asked him why not, he replied a little angrily: “It's against the law.”
He added that he doesn't think NYC is currently maintaining “sanctuary” status in the way it was originally intended, but that his hands are tied legally.
“We can't legally tell someone to come into the city, you can't come into the city,” he said. “We can't even turn them over to ICE.”
During Adams' progressive predecessor, Bill De Blasio, the former mayor signed a series of laws that dramatically limited the city's cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.