Interior Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for dozens of migrants arriving in blue cities and states across the country, without any examination of 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 the complaints. from Democratic mayors, including Eric Adams of New York, for the lack of federal aid to deal with the newcomers.
“It is a notable failure of governance to refuse to cooperate with local and state officials.”
At least 95,000 immigrants have been flown or bused from Texas to so-called “sanctuary cities” such as New York, Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles (despite the objections of officials at those destinations) since Abbott launched Operation Solitaire. star in March 2021, according to the governor’s office.
Alejandro Mayorkas blamed the Texas governor for his tactic of busing immigrants to blue cities across the country. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Meanwhile, the Lone Star State is in a court fight with the White House over the stringing of razor wire near the border to deter illegal migration, a barrier the Biden administration has said it wants to cut.
In response to Mayorkas, Abbott pressed the secretary’s suggestion that “climate change, poverty and the rising level of authoritarianism” were the root causes of the surge at the border.
“Climate change? Mayorkas is pathetic,” Abbott wrote in X. “The REAL reason illegal immigration records are being set is because Biden refuses to enforce immigration laws.
Climate change?
Mayorkas is pathetic.
The REAL reason illegal immigration records are being set is because Biden refuses to enforce immigration laws.
We will send more buses and planes.
We will continue to build the barbed 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 continued. “We will continue to build the barbed wire walls that Biden wants to tear down.”
Mayorkas also insisted that DHS has taken steps to address “the challenges facing cities across the country.”
On Dec. 27, Adams issued an executive order requiring charter bus companies transporting migrants to alert 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 avenues in Manhattan.
Greg Abbott has bussed migrants to blue cities as a way to ease the problem at home and continues to pressure Democrats over the immigration crisis. fake images
“We cannot allow buses with people who need our help to arrive unannounced at any time of the day or night,” Adams said at the time. “Not only does this prevent us from providing assistance in an orderly manner, but it endangers those who have already suffered so much.”
On Tuesday, Adams proposed expanding the bus order to also apply to planes and trains carrying immigrants.
“We are dealing with a person who only wants to disrupt,” Adams said of Abbott, adding that his order was 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 in the past 18 months, according to city officials, an influx that has strained the Big Apple’s finances.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers take an immigrant girl from her mother after they crossed the border from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas. AFP via Getty Images
During fiscal year 2023, which ended Sept. 30, more than 2.47 million encounters with migrants were reported along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. .
That figure does not include the approximately 670,000 “fugitives” who eluded authorities.
There were nearly 2.4 million arrests in fiscal year 2022, following a record 1.7 million arrests in fiscal year 2021.
Further complicating the problem is the fact that many migrants arrive at the border and request asylum before being released into the United States to await a court date to hear their case.
The backlog in adjudicating asylum cases surpassed 3 million in November, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Mayorkas faces murmurs of impeachment from House Republicans. REUTERS
“That delay is a powerful example of how broken our immigration system is,” Mayorkas argued Wednesday.
Biden has been blamed for fueling the wave of migration through a series of executive actions as president.
Most notably, the 81-year-old stopped construction of former President Donald Trump’s US-Mexico border wall on his first day as president, and in June 2021 he ended the “Remain in Mexico” policy that required the Most asylum seekers will wait south of the border. while his case is known.
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