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   From: democrat-insurrection@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/us-news/greg-abbott-i-bused-migrant-to-nyc-   
   because-of-mayor-adams/   
      
   AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott wasn’t going to bus migrants to New York City.   
   And then Eric Adams opened his big mouth.   
      
   That’s how the three-term Republican describes his 2022 decision to send   
   119,000 migrants from the Texas border to sanctuary cities across the   
   country — including more than 45,000 to New York alone.   
      
   In an exclusive interview with The Post, Abbott explained that at first he   
   was only sending migrant buses to Washington, DC, to make a point about   
   the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to crack down on the massive   
   surge of illegal crossings — and relieve some pressure on the border towns   
   that were being overwhelmed.   
      
   Then, “out of nowhere,” Abbott said, “Mayor Adams started criticizing me   
   for busing them to New York, which I was not doing. But he kept   
   criticizing me.”   
      
   “I thought, ‘You know what? New York is a sanctuary city, if I’m going to   
   get the criticism, I’m going to get the credit.’ So we started busing them   
   to New York.”   
      
   The first buses sent by Abbott arrived at Port Authority Bus Terminal a   
   few weeks later in early August.   
      
   Abbott then started sending buses not just to New York, but to major   
   sanctuary cities across the US, from Los Angeles to Chicago and Denver.   
      
   ‘A United States issue’   
   The result was a program that may have changed the course of politics,   
   helping to turn the influx of millions of migrants from a border-state   
   problem into a national issue that has impacted large portions of the US —   
   and making immigration and border policy one of the biggest issues in the   
   2024 election.   
      
   Migrants from the border were already arriving to New York City by the   
   summer of 2022 — though Abbott said Texas wasn’t involved in sending them.   
      
   In July, Adams claimed migrants coming to NYC were “arriving on buses sent   
   by the Texas and Arizona governments,” which both Abbott and Arizona Gov.   
   Doug Ducey vehemently denied at the time.   
      
   A City Hall source said NYC officials believed that many migrants were   
   coming to New York after being bused to Washington as part of Abbott’s   
   program.   
      
   To be sure, most of the migrants who have arrived in New York and other   
   cities came on their own — Abbott’s buses were responsible for about 20%   
   of the 210,000 migrants who have passed through the city shelter system   
   since 2022.   
      
   The operation was decried by many local and federal leaders as a racist   
   use of humans as political pawns — including by Adams, who called Abbott   
   “anti-American” for “shipping people on a bus.”   
      
   City Hall doubled down on that stance Sunday, insisting that Adams has   
   done more to help migrants than anything Abbott’s “scheme” ever did — and   
   calling the governor’s plan an “ill-conceived policy that has failed to   
   deliver meaningful results for either taxpayers or migrants.”   
      
   “For over two years, Governor Abbott has used human beings as political   
   pawns and sent thousands of migrants to New York City without any kind of   
   communication or coordination,” a spokesperson for City Hall told The   
   Post.   
      
   “Thanks to our 30- and 60-day policies — and intensified casework —   
   approximately 70 percent of the migrants that have come through our care   
   have already taken the next steps in their journeys,” the spokesperson   
   said.   
      
   “One thing is for sure: New York City is in a much better place than we   
   were a year ago thanks to the smart choices we’ve made,” City Hall added.   
      
   Abbott, however, argues the program not only helped migrants in the long   
   run, but forced the nation to finally look the crisis in the face.   
      
   “Because of that process people across the country began to understand   
   this is not a Texas issue. This is a United States issue. And it made them   
   focus on the political issue, either at the city council level or all the   
   way to the presidential level,” Abbott said.   
      
   “This is not a Texas issue. This is a United States issue caused by the   
   Biden administration.”   
      
   Harris has ‘ignored’ invites   
   Abbott said he has repeatedly tried to blunt the impact of Biden-Harris   
   border policies on his state.   
      
   He has ordered fortifications along the Texas stretch of the border —   
   especially dangerous sections of the Rio Grande — including razor wire and   
   serrated buoys, and ordered the Texas National Guard and Department of   
   Public Safety to help stop and detain illegal crossers.   
      
   At every turn, the Biden administration has opposed Abbott’s moves with   
   legal injunctions.   
      
   But Abbott’s strategy seems to be working. Border crossings in Texas have   
   slowed to a small fraction of what they were at their peak in December   
   2023.   
      
   The NYC busing started in August 2022 — a month when Texas saw about about   
   117,000 migrants crossing the border. Two years later, this past August,   
   there were about 28,000 crossers.   
      
   Abbott, however, said Texans cannot afford another four years of open   
   border policy — which he believes Vice President Kamala Harris would   
   allow.   
      
   “Coming out of Texas taxpayer pockets is far more than $10 billion of our   
   own money to pay for border security, to deal with refusal of the Biden-   
   Harris administration to secure the border,” he said.   
      
   Abbott said Harris has not only “ignored” the border crisis she was tasked   
   with fixing as “border czar” — but has also completely ignored numerous   
   invitations from Texas to come and see the state of the border firsthand.   
      
   “She has never even responded,” Abbott said, adding that “a Kamala Harris   
   presidency could destroy Texas.”   
      
   In June 2021 — a year before Abbott’s first buses left for DC — Harris   
   made her first visit to the southern border as vice president, a trip   
   which included a stop in El Paso. And on Friday, she again traveled to the   
   border, but remained in Arizona.   
      
   Tren de Aragua : ‘A very dangerous gang’   
   Another issue President Biden and his so-called “border czar” Harris are   
   responsible for — and which Abbott said he has been forced to clean up —   
   is the emergence of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua on American   
   streets.   
      
   The gang has created footholds across the country after untold individual   
   members slipped in across the border — with 100 suspected members being   
   caught during a single rush at the El Paso border in March.   
      
   But once again, what happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas.   
      
   Tren de Aragua now commands extensive criminal operations in NYC, Colorado   
   and Chicago, and has even been linked to a rise in forced prostitution in   
   eight states across the country: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,   
   Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas.   
      
   “This is all caused Biden and Harris opening the door to people from   
   Venezuela, including gangs. There’s no data that even the Biden   
      
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