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Greg Abbott tears into DC Mayor Bowser complaining that city's homeless are filling up with migrants

Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com - 3h ago

Governor Greg Abbott's office claims that Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is only seeing a 'fraction of the disaster' at the southern border after she complained that her city's homeless shelters are filling up with migrants bused from Texas and Arizona.
'Border communities are overrun and overwhelmed, and Governor Abbott launched the border bus mission back in April to help provide support to these communities pleading for help where the Biden Administration is dumping migrants,' Abbott spokeswoman Renae Eze told DailyMail.com in a statement.

She added: 'With our nation's capital now experiencing a fraction of the disaster created by President Biden's reckless open border policies that our state faces every single day, maybe he'll finally do his job and secure the border.'
The response from Abbott comes after Bowser lamented Sunday of Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey sending migrants to D.C. under false pretenses that they will be transported to a third final destination afterwards.
'Well, this is a very significant issue,' Bowser told CBS News program Face the Nation on Sunday morning. 'We have for sure called on the federal government to work across state lines to prevent people from really being tricked into getting on buses.'
'I fear that they're being tricked into nationwide bus trips when their final destinations are places all over the United States of America,' she added.
Since April, the two states have sent at least 4,000 migrants to the nation's capital.


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A spokesperson for Abbott (pictured) told DailyMail.com in a statement: 'Governor Abbott launched the border bus mission back in April to help provide support to these communities pleading for help where the Biden Administration is dumping migrants'

The goal, according to Abbott, was to bring the crisis to the doorsteps of President Joe Biden and other D.C. elite to elicit a stronger response to the southern border crisis from the administration.
Eze told DailyMail.com that 'Biden's open border policies have created an ongoing humanitarian crisis, with record-high illegal crossings and deadly drugs like fentanyl flooding into our state.'
In June, the number of migrants apprehended by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) actually decreased for the first time in five months.
Despite this, Bowser says that Washington, D.C.'s homeless shelters are filling up due to the increase of migrants in the city and she is requesting that Abbott and Ducey stop preventing migrants from getting to their final destinations.
Ducey followed Abbott's lead earlier this summer in sending migrants from their respective states to D.C. to take some of the load off communities in their states.
Homeless shelters in the nation's capital are starting to cap out with these asylum-seekers due to this initiative.


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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser blasted Abbott and Arizona GOP Governor Doug Ducey for busing migrants from their states to the nation's capital, claiming they are to blame for the boost in crowded homeless shelters


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Comes amid the latest report in figures showing that migrant crossings went on the decline from May to June for the first time in five months

Bowser said that the people arriving in her city on these buses are 'largely asylum seekers who are going to final destinations that are not Washington D.C.'
Since April, Texas and Arizona have sent a combined 4,000 migrants to the District, with officials in both states claiming that migrants voluntarily agreed to take the bus trip north.
It now appears, however, that those participating in the trips may have been under the impression that they would have a final destination other than D.C.
One asylum seeker mother of two from Venezuela told WUSA9 on Thursday that she was told in Texas that she and her family would be sent to Colorado after they arrive in the nation's capital, which never happened.
Another mother of three said a Texas official told her that someone in D.C. would provide her family transport to Chicago.
'But it was all a lie,' she said.


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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started sending asylum-seekers to D.C. in April to ship the migration crisis to where lawmakers and the president would see it more prominently, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey followed his lead in May


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Since April, Texas and Arizona have sent a combined 4,000 migrants to the District, but reports claim they are volunteering for the trip under false pretenses that they will be sent to a third final destination

While it's unclear who is promising this assistance to bus passengers, nonprofits in the District claim they have heard similar stories from those posted up outside Union Station.
Bowser assured that D.C. taxpayers are not picking up the tab for the increased homeless population with the migrants from Texas and Arizona.
The latest comes as migration figures for June were released.
The drop to 207,416 encounters with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) comes after four straight months of increases through the spring, with the highest-ever in May with 240,991.
President Joe Biden has seen record-high migration numbers under his administration's policies, which progressive Democrats claim are too tough and Republicans claim are much too lax and leading to the crisis.
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Greg Abbott tears into DC Mayor Bowser complaining that city's homeless are filling up with migrants (msn.com)

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South Texas candidate says Hispanic voters fleeing Democrats: 'Liberal agenda doesn't reflect their values'

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Texas Republican candidate Monica De La Cruz joined "America's Newsroom" Tuesday to discuss her upcoming election and why she believes Latino voters are leaving the Democratic Party. De La Cruz is running against Democrat Michelle Vallejo in a new South Texas district.

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MONICA DE LA CRUZ: I don't have to explain anything to the voters, because really it's voters standing up for their values. They love this country. They believe in the American dream. They stand up for their family, and they stand up for God in their faith. That has not changed. What has changed is that the Democrat Party has just gone so far to the left in pushing their liberal agenda, their radical agenda to Hispanics. And that just does not reflect our Hispanic values. And so the Hispanic population is waking up. Well, we're seeing that in the numbers.

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GOP states push back against DC, NYC calls for federal help with migrant surge

Adam Shaw - 15h ago

open borders crisis as failing, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. She's now
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Washington mayor complains about illegal immigrants bused to DC
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Republican states, including those at the southern border, are pushing back against calls from Democratic politicians in Washington D.C. and New York City for federal help with alleged surges in illegal immigrants hitting their cities -- arguing that those cities are dealing with the effects of liberal immigration policies by the Biden administration.
Both NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser have blamed Arizona and Texas for sending migrants to their cities, which they say is straining their social services, including homeless shelters.
Bowser claimed that migrants have been "tricked" into getting on buses to the nation’s capital and called for federal aid.
"Local taxpayers are not picking up the tab. They should not pick up the tab," Bowser said. "We really need a coordinated federal response. We know that it’s done for refugees who come to the states from all points of the world and the same has to be done in this situation."

NYC MAYOR ADAMS ASKS FOR FEDERAL MONEY TO HANDLE ASYLUM SEEKERS BUSED IN FROM OTHER STATES


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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has sent migrants to Washington D.C. Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Adams, meanwhile, said NYC is dealing with a "marked increase" in asylum seekers, with more than 2,800 entering the city’s shelter system.

"In some instances, families are arriving on buses sent by the Texas and Arizona governments, while in other cases, it appears that individuals are being sent by the federal government," he said in a statement.
Both Texas and Arizona have been moving migrants to the nation’s capital as part of an effort to bring what they say are the consequences of "open border" policies to the politicians who promote them -- but they both denied sending any migrants to the Big Apple. They have also urged those mayors to turn their attention to the Biden administration, not to their states.
In a statement, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said that Adams "needs to get his facts straight and pay closer attention to what’s really occurring because our nation’s security depends on it.:
"The State of Arizona is providing voluntary transportation for asylum seekers only to Washington, D.C., not New York," he said. "President Biden created the crisis at the border — he’s failed to respond to calls for action and refuses to even visit the border, so we’re bringing the issue a little closer to home for him."
"The President’s policies have placed overwhelming burdens on Arizona communities," he said. "It’s convenient that these liberal mayors are finally speaking up on this humanitarian crisis once it affects their communities, even though our program does not charter to New York City."
Renae Eze, spokesperson for Texas Gov. Abbott, also said that Texas had bused 5,200 migrants to D.C. since April, but not to NYC.
"If these Democrat mayors are now that concerned about having migrants in their cities, they should call on President Biden to do his job and secure the border, instead of attacking Texas with baseless political accusations," she said in a statement.

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"Our border communities are being overrun and overwhelmed as President Biden’s open border policies encourage record-high illegal crossings and deadly drugs like fentanyl to flood into our state, and Texas is utilizing every strategy to help our local partners," she said. "Every American community is a border community until President Biden secures our southern border."
Meanwhile, in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis battled with the Biden administration last year over the movement of migrants into the Sunshine State. Most recently, he has secured funding to transport migrants out of Florida -- and has suggested they be sent to Biden’s home state of Delaware.
Asked whether DeSantis was sympathetic to the concerns of the D.C. and NYC mayors, DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw told Fox News Digital: "We’re sympathetic to the concerns of all Americans who are suffering due to Bidenflation, housing shortages, and failing public schools that are further strained by uncontrolled illegal migration."
"This is a direct result of President Biden’s open-border agenda, which most liberal politicians (including the Mayor of NYC) have vocally supported," she said. "In other words, we feel for the innocent citizens harmed by the Biden Border Crisis, but we have zero sympathy for the politicians who created it and now complain about the predictable results."



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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' office has suggested sending migrants in Florida to Biden's home state of Delaware. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

"For over a year, Governor DeSantis has pointed out that everyday Americans – particularly in Texas and Arizona, but also in Florida and elsewhere – are bearing the brunt of consequences from the Biden open-borders agenda," she added. "Meanwhile, Biden and other elites who advocate for these inhumane and anti-American policies have been insulated from their harmful effects."
DeSantis’ office highlighted a slew of overdoses on fentanyl, which is primarily brought in via the southern border, as well as a number of Floridians who have been killed by illegal immigrant criminals -- as well as "skyrocketing" human trafficking into the state.
"Politicians in Washington, DC and New York City have pushed an open-border agenda while having the privilege to ignore the horrific consequences," Pushaw said. "That’s why Governor DeSantis supports the efforts to send illegal aliens to cities (including DC and NYC) controlled by those politicians who have supported and enabled such reckless violations of our sovereignty."
Republicans have pointed to the rollback of Trump-era policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) by the Biden administration, as well as the narrowing of interior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) priorities and the halting of border wall construction. The Biden administration has instead stressed the importance of tackling "root causes" like violence and poverty in Central America.

GOP states push back against DC, NYC calls for federal help with migrant surge (msn.com)

They only person who should pick up the tab for this invasion is their country to send them back!

Hand them over to their Embassy or Consulate to process and transport back home or NO more visas and foreign aid.