得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特(Greg Abbott)在与纽约市长埃里克·亚当斯(Eric Adams)的长期争执中，为从得克萨斯州-墨西哥边境向民主党领导的城市派遣移民巴士进行辩护，后者指责阿博特在南部边境的危机中利用移民作为“政治棋子”。
艾伯特和亚当斯采访了《晚间新闻》的联合主持人拜伦·皮茨在周三播出的采访中，亚当斯批评共和党州长没有与纽约市官员协调移民的到来，阿博特加倍支持他的政策，将移民赶出德克萨斯州。
“我们必须保护我们的边境，因为拜登政府没有保护好它，”阿博特说。“然后我们首先开始让人们乘坐公共汽车的原因是因为拜登政府，他们实际上是在10或25，000人的小城镇倾倒移民，他们完全被淹没了。”
与此同时，亚当斯批评艾伯特在过去两周移民巴士抵达时没有与纽约市官员协调。
“这是最糟糕的政治，”亚当斯说。“提升他的国家形象是可恶的政治，你知道吗，你不应该通过剥夺有需要的人的尊重和尊严来做到这一点。”
据亚当斯称，自5月以来，已有6000多名寻求庇护的移民抵达纽约市——其中许多人是由于雅培的校车政策而被送到那里的。
亚当斯在6月21日的新闻发布会上说，根据该州的“住房权”法，该市将为来自德克萨斯州的移民提供庇护。
但随着数千名寻求庇护者在过去几个月里抵达纽约市，庇护系统一直处于紧张状态，市政府官员承认，纽约市社会服务部未能让四个家庭在庇护所过夜，违反了纽约市的庇护授权。
当被问及亚当斯指责将移民转移到纽约市的政策是政治表演和“非美国”时，阿博特指责亚当斯“玩弄政治”，并称他为“伪君子”。
“他也是一个伪君子，因为纽约市是一个自称的‘避难所城市’，”艾伯特说。“所以，为什么他一刻也没有抱怨过这些人被巴士载到了一个城市，这违背了他自己关于自己是一个避难所城市的宣言。”“庇护城”一词指的是像纽约市这样为了保护非法移民而无视联邦移民法的城市。
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during CPAC Texas 2022 conference in Dallas, Texas, on Aug. 4, 2022.
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根据阿博特办公室8月5日的一份声明，超过6500名移民也被大巴送往华盛顿特区，现在是纽约市。
华盛顿市长穆里尔·布瑟请求国民警卫队帮助处理危机。
一名国防官员在8月5日的一份声明中告诉美国广播公司新闻，国防部长Lloyd Austin“拒绝批准DCHSEMA要求DCNG提供人员和DC军械库，以协助非政府组织SAMU第一反应，运输和接收抵达DC地区的移民。”
“我们已经确定提供这种支持将对DCNG的准备工作产生负面影响，并对该组织和成员产生负面影响，”该官员说，并补充说，通过FEMA的紧急食品和避难所计划有足够的资金来解决危机。
但是布瑟在那周晚些时候再次向国民警卫队求助。
“在这个关键时刻，我们需要联邦伙伴的帮助，以稳定和管理我们的运营环境，”布瑟8月11日在推特上说。“我很荣幸与DC国民警卫队的男女队员一起工作过多次，今天我们再次请求他们的帮助。”
当被问及他是否也可能请求国民警卫队的帮助时，亚当斯说，“我们将在这个时候尽一切可能。”
“我们相信我们能够继续履行我们的道德和法律责任，”他补充说。“我们正在拜访华盛顿。华盛顿的目的是在这些困难时期帮助各州和各城市。因此，我们正在向华盛顿寻求帮助。”
亚当斯敦促阿博特与纽约市官员协调，因为公交车继续抵达该市。
当被问及他是否直接与艾伯特交谈时，亚当斯说:“没有。”
“他应该拿起电话，我们应该沟通，因为正如我所说，这是一场危机，”亚当斯说。
当被问及他是否会与亚当斯合作协调移民抵达时，阿博特说，他之前给亚当斯写了一封信，敦促他访问德克萨斯州，亲眼目睹该州移民危机的“混乱”，但亚当斯没有接受他的提议。
“在我们开始用巴士运送非法移民到纽约之前，只有德克萨斯州和亚利桑那州首当其冲地承受着所有的混乱和随之而来的所有问题。现在，美国其他人都明白到底发生了什么，”阿博特说。
亚当斯和阿博特之间的不和发生在共和党州长和拜登政府之间激烈的政策斗争中，共和党州长目前正在寻求连任，拜登政府正在美墨边境涌入大量移民。
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doubles down on busing migrants to NYC amid feud with Mayor Eric Adams
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defended sending buses of migrants from the Texas-Mexico border to Democrat-led cities amid a feud with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who accused Abbott of using migrants as “political pawns” amid a crisis on the southern border.
Abbott and Adamsspoke with "Nightline" co-anchor Byron Pittsin interviews that aired on Wednesday, where Adams criticized the Republican governor for not coordinating the arrivals of migrants with NYC officials and Abbott doubled down on his policy to bus migrants out of Texas.
“We've got to secure our border because the Biden administration is not securing it,” Abbott said. “And then the reason why we began putting people on buses in the first place is because the Biden administration, they were literally dumping migrants off in small little towns of 10 or 25,000 people, and they were completely overwhelmed.”
Meanwhile, Adams criticized Abbott for not coordinating with NYC officials as buses of migrants arrived over the past two weeks.
“It’s the worst type of politics,” Adams said. “It’s hateful politics to raise his national profile and, you know what, you should not be doing it by taking away the respect and dignity of people who are in need.”
According to Adams, more than 6,000 migrants seeking asylum have arrived in NYC since May – many of whom were sent there due to Abbott’s busing policy.
Adams said during a June 21 press conference that the city will find shelter for migrants arriving from Texas under the state's "right to shelter" law.
But as thousands of asylum seekers arrived in New York City over the past couple of months, the shelter system has been strained and city officials acknowledged that the NYC Department of Social Services violated New York City’s right to shelter mandate when it failed to place four families in shelters overnight.
Asked about Adams’ accusation that the policy to move migrants to New York City is political showmanship and “un-American,” Abbott accused Adams of “playing politics” and called him a “hypocrite.”
“He's also being a hypocrite because New York City is a self-declared ‘sanctuary city,’” Abbott said. “And so why he's ever complaining for one moment about these people being bused into a city goes against his own self-declaration of being a sanctuary city.” The term “sanctuary city” refers to municipalities like New York City that are willing to defy federal immigration laws in order to protect undocumented immigrants.
According to an Aug. 5 statement from Abbott’s office, more than 6,500 migrants also have been sent on buses to Washington, D.C., and now New York City.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested help from the National Guard to deal with the crisis.
A defense official told ABC News in a statement on Aug. 5 that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “has declined to approve the DCHSEMA request for DCNG to provide personnel and the DC Armory to assist the NGO, SAMU First Response, with transportation and reception of migrants arriving in the DC area.”
“We have determined providing this support would negatively impact the readiness of the DCNG and have negative effects on the organization and members,” the official said, adding that there is sufficient funding through FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program to address the crisis.
But Bowser renewed her call for help from the National Guard later that week.
“We need help from our federal partners as we seek to stabilize and manage our operating environment in this critical moment,” Bowser tweeted on Aug. 11. “I have been honored to work with the men and women of the DC National Guard many times and today we renewed our request for their assistance.”
Asked if he may also request help from the National Guard, Adams said, “We're going to do everything that's possible at this time.”
“We believe that we can continue to carry out our moral and legal responsibility,” he added. “We are calling on Washington. It is Washington's purpose to assist the states and cities during these difficult times. So we are looking for help from Washington, D.C.”
Adams urged Abbott to coordinate with NYC officials as buses continue to arrive in the city.
Asked if he had spoken directly with Abbott, Adams said, "no, I have not."
“He should have picked the phone up, and we should communicate because, as I stated, this is a crisis,” Adams said.
Pressed on whether he would work with Adams to coordinate migrant arrivals, Abbott said that he previously sent Adams a letter and urged him to visit Texas to witness the “chaos” of the migrant crisis in the state firsthand, but Adams did not take him up on the offer.
“Before we began busing illegal immigrants up to New York, it was just Texas and Arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. Now, the rest of America is understanding exactly what is going on,” Abbott said.
The feud between Adams and Abbott comes amid a heated policy battle between the Republican governor, who is currently seeking reelection, and the Biden administration over a surge of migrant arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border.
