Adams claimed in a press release, even though a Texas Democratic mayor of Mexican descent has shipped more than twice the number of migrants to New York City and Chicago. Adams suggested that Abbott had recently stopped sending busloads of illegal migrants-turned-asylum seekers to New York City, only to plan to ramp up the "morally bankrupt" program again.
Abbott's office denied that it ever stopped sending migrants to the Big Apple or that it has bused any to Los Angeles or Denver.
Abbott, who is white, has said the buses are to protest what he calls the Biden administration's dangerously lax immigration policies and the targeted municipalities' decision to become "Sanctuary Cities," which don't report illegal immigrants to deportation officials. The Democratic White House has slammed the Republican tactic as a political "publicity stunt."
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Even El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, who is a Democrat and of Mexican descent, has shipped migrants from his city to the Big Apple, in fact, more than twice than Abbott since spring 2022.
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Abbott's office said it had sent more than 5,200 migrants to the city, while Leeser has arranged for 10,713 migrants to be bused to New York, according to that city's migrant crisis database.
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Leeser was not singled out for anti-black racism by Adams on Monday, even after also signaling he may soon increase migrant busing from his city to the Big Apple as Title 42, the pandemic-era policy used to expel some 2.5 million asylum-seekers along health guidelines, is set to lapse May 11.
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Abbott's office added that aside from New York City, it has bussed more than 9,100 migrants to D.C. and 1,500-plus to Chicago. El Paso said it also had sent an additional 3,259 migrants to Chicago, or more than twice what Abbott said he sent. But again, El Paso's Democratic mayor was not mentioned in another impassioned letter on the controversy, this time from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to Abbott on Sunday.
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Lightfoot, who is black, demanded the Republican stop the "inhumane and dangerous" busing of asylum seekers to her city. Lightfoot had accused Abbott of racism in the past but stopped short of the charge in her letter. Last week, the Big Apple took in another surge in migrants, including 1,300 in just three days, although their entry points or origins were unclear.
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At the time, Adams asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to step in by refusing to allow states to use its grant money to bus out asylum-seekers. An Adams spokesman Monday said Texas's migrant buses to Manhattan's Port Authority had not been arriving since January but that City Hall got word from FEMA over the weekend that the practice would soon resume.
As for Texas busing migrants to L.A. and Denver, the rep said FEMA told City Hall it would happen. Neither FEMA, Abbott, nor officials with Los Angeles or Denver replied to The Post on Monday.
According to city statistics, nearly 60,000 asylum-seekers have flooded New York City since last spring. The city said it does not know where most of them are coming from if Abbott's and El Paso's figures are correct. At least some were shipped here from Arizona. About 75,000 migrants had crossed into the U.S. in the past ten days alone, according to U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz.
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Two weeks ago, Adams accused the Biden administration of turning its back on the city and creating "one of the largest humanitarian crises" in its history, as officials provided shelter to tens of thousands of migrants on the dime of local taxpayers, creating a projected $4.2 billion shortfall, according to City Hall.
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Adams had warned that the number of people seeking refuge in the Big Apple could soon swell to 100,000 when Title 42 expired but said Monday that his office would continue to lead the nation in providing services to migrants.
"Despite Abbott's inhumane actions, New York City will continue to do all it can to handle this influx, but this crisis is more than one city can handle," his statement continued. "With a vacuum of leadership from border states, we need the federal government to step in and provide us with support and to prevent this cruelty from continuing."
Since 2021, about 3.2 million migrants have crossed into Texas alone, most traveling through Mexico to escape failing governments and persecution in Central and South America and Caribbean nations, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics. They enter illegally and then claim asylum in the U.S.. El Paso, the busiest border crossing for migrant apprehensions, sees more than 1,400 asylum-seekers daily, according to the city's database.
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