Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday for the influx of immigrants into blue cities and states across the country — without any checks on the Biden administration’s own policies.
“Let me identify a fundamental problem here, and that is the fact that we have a governor in the state of Texas who refuses to cooperate with other governors and other local officials,” Mayorkas said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in response to complaints. from Democratic mayors – including New York’s Eric Adams – over the lack of federal aid to deal with new immigrants.
“It is an extraordinary failure of governance to refuse to cooperate with fellow local and state officials.”
At least 95,000 migrants have been flown or taken out of Texas to so-called “sanctuary cities” such as New York, Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles — over the objections of officials at those destinations — since Abbott launched Operation Lone Bintang in March 2021, according to the governor’s office.
Alejandro Mayorkas blamed the Texas governor for his efforts to transport immigrants to blue cities across the country. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Meanwhile, the Lone Star State is in a court battle with the White House over the installation of razor wire near the border to prevent illegal immigration — an obstacle the Biden administration says it wants to break.
In response to Mayorkas, Abbott echoed the secretary’s suggestion that “climate change, poverty, increasing levels of authoritarianism” were the main causes of the surge at the border.
“Climate change? Mayorkas sad,” Abbott wrote on X. “The REAL reason illegal immigration records are set is because Biden refuses to enforce immigration laws.
Climate change?
Mayorkas is sad.
The REAL reason illegal immigration records are set is because Biden refuses to enforce immigration laws.
We will send more buses and planes.
We will continue to build the razor wire walls that Biden wants to tear down. https://t.co/Z0j9MVS74c
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 3, 2024
“We will send more buses and planes,” the governor said. “We will continue to build the razor wire wall that Biden wants to tear down.”
Abbott’s fellow Republicans also jumped to the governor’s defense.
“Governor Abbott has no choice but to transport immigrants elsewhere because the community of Texas cannot continue to be burdened with the costs of the Biden Border Crisis alone,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told The Post.
“As Mayorkas and Biden continue to facilitate the invasion of our borders, @GovAbbott works to enforce our laws and deny illegal entry. Mayorkas slammed Abbott for having the courage to do his job. Mayorkas treat Americans as idiots,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) posted on X, adding: “Prosecutions coming.”
Mayorkas also pointed out that DHS has taken steps to meet “the challenges facing cities across the country.”
On Dec. 27, Adams issued an executive order requiring charter bus companies carrying migrants to notify the city’s Office of Emergency Management at least 32 hours before arriving in the Big Apple.
The order also limits delivery hours to between 8:30 a.m. and noon each day at one location, on West 41st Street between Eighth and Ninth streets in Manhattan.
Greg Abbott has brought immigrants to blue cities as a way to ease problems at home and continues to poke Democrats for the immigration crisis. Getty Images
“We cannot allow buses with people who need our help to arrive without warning at any time of the day or night,” Adams said at the time. “This not only prevents us from providing help and an organized way, it puts those who have suffered so much in danger.”
On Tuesday, Adams floated expanding the bus reservation to apply to planes and trains carrying migrants as well.
“We’re dealing with someone who just wants to be disruptive,” Adams said of Abbott, adding that his instructions were “to send the right message to bus operators — ‘You should not participate in Governor Abbott’s actions.'”
New York City has welcomed more than 161,000 immigrants over the past 18 months, according to city officials, an influx that has hurt the Big Apple’s finances.
US Customs and Border Protection officers took a migrant child from his mother after they crossed the border from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas. AFP via Getty Images
During fiscal year 2023, which ended on September 30, more than 2.47 million encounters with immigrants were reported along the US-Mexico border, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection.
That number does not include about 670,000 “tourists” who evaded authorities.
There were nearly 2.4 million arrests in fiscal 2022, following a record-breaking 1.7 million stops in fiscal 2021.
Further complicating the problem is the fact that many immigrants come to the border and claim asylum before being released to the US to await a court date to hear their case.
The backlog for adjudicating asylum cases surpassed 3 million in November, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Mayorkas faces impeachment complaints from House Republicans. Reuters
“The backlog is a powerful example of how broken our immigration system is,” Mayorkas said on Wednesday.
Biden has been blamed for encouraging the wave of immigration through several executive actions as president.
Notably, the 81-year-old stopped former President Donald Trump’s US-Mexico border wall construction on his first day as president, and in June 2021 ended the “Stay in Mexico” policy that required most asylum seekers to wait south of the border. while their case is being tried.
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