Mayor Adams Slams Texas Gov. Abbott for His Treatment of Migrants

By Yehudit Garmaise

Mayor Eric Adams has said he will continue to welcome and accommodate the 50 to 100 migrants who are transported daily to NYC from Texas, but he is not impressed with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s southern hospitality.

"It's unimaginable to come to a country and on your first visit here, someone is throwing you out,” Mayor Adams said about Gov. Abbott’s move in recent months to charter buses to transport 4,000 migrants from Texas to NYC since May.

“Every asylum seeker who comes to New York, we are going to give them shelter and the support that they need,” said Mayor Adams, who said the city might use empty hotel rooms to house the incoming migrants. 

On early Sunday morning, Mayor Adams came to the Port Authority to greet the asylum seekers, while he condemned the unwelcoming behavior of Gov. Abbott, whom Adams called, “inhumane.”

Just a few days earlier Gov. Abbott “placed migrants on a bus for a 44-hour ride with very few breaks, no food, no direction, and no clear information,” Mayor Adams said. 

After complaining that Biden’s open immigration policies were causing a constant influx of migrants to overwhelm towns in Texas, Gov. Abbott chartered buses from the Texas Division of Emergency Management to NYC.

Abbott said he chose NYC because its leaders “boast about the abundance of services and housing.” 

In doing so, Gov. Abbott transferred what he called “the crises at the US’s southern border” to both NYC and DC, both of which now say their housing resources are overburdened.

“We have a mandate by law to house people, and we are going to use every available means to do so,” said Mayor Adams, who said he was speaking to the White House to request financial support to accommodate the explosion of migrants who are increasing NYC’s population daily.

“We need the resources to assist the migrants,” said Mayor Adams, who has been complaining for months that the recent influx of migrants has been overburdening the city’s shelters and public resources.

To determine the “price tag,” of accommodating the constant stream of incoming migrants, the mayor said, Anne Williams-Isom, the deputy mayor of Health and Human Services is “doing a complete analysis to determine the dollar amount” that the mayor requested from the White House yesterday.