COMING TO AMERICA IS A SNAP!
■ Migrants celebrate illegal entry with selfie ■ Gov. Abbott: Biden could stop this in a second
By JACK MORPHET and OLIVIA LAND Oland@nypost.com
A family celebrates stepping foot on Texas soil this week — as thousands line up to illegally cross the border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott visited NYC yesterday, and called on President Biden to finally enforce our immigration laws.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott slammed President Biden Wednesday for his consistent bungling of the border crisis, claiming he chooses not to act and help solve it.
“Joe Biden can flip that switch any day and stop New York dealing with the consequences of an open border,” the governor groused during a visit to the Big Apple.
“Unless and until that is done, New York and other states are going to continue to deal with this.”
August alone saw 180,000 migrants admitted to the country to pursue asylum claims, and for 2023 the number stands at 1.23 million.
Speaking to The Post at The Yale Club following an event at the Manhattan Institute, Abbott, 65, defended his controversial busing program, which has sent nearly 40,000 migrants from Texas to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other self-declared sanctuary cities across the US.
Fentanyl scourge
Abbott said during his speech his office has bused 15,800 migrants to New York City since August 2022, but that’s only around 13% of the 116,000 who have arrived in the city since spring of last year.
“Every state in America now is a border state,” Abbott (inset) claimed.
“Every community is a border community. In addition to the migrants, whether they be in New York City or wherever, fentanyl is pouring all across this country.”
Buses laden with hundreds of migrants bound for New York left Texas just last Friday — despite New York Gov. Hochul’s insistence that there is no more room for them in the Empire State or the Big Apple.
‘1-year-old dying’
“Democrats or community leaders in New York City, whatever the case may be, say, ‘It is inhumane to do what [I’m] doing,’ ” Abbott added.
“Let’s talk about what’s inhumane. What’s inhumane is a 1-year-old child dying in New York because of fentanyl.”
The governor’s comment referred to Nicholas Feliz Dominici, who died earlier this month when he inhaled fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than hera oin — at day-care center that was later revealed to be a drug front.
“To think you had a 1-year-old child in New York exposed to fentanyl, probably because of the open border policies put in place by Joe Biden, that’s inhumane,” the Texas governor added.
Abbott said the growing backlash in New York over how to handle the almost 66,000 mistill grants in state care and leaders like Mayor Adams being vocal about how they have received no help from the Biden administration are a step in the right direction. “There’s one solid piece of advice, and [New York officials] are beginning to follow it — the challenge the city of New York and the state of New York are dealing with is caused by one person, Joe Biden,” Abbott said.
‘They need a change’
“They must travail on their president for more than just money, they need a change in pol
icy — they need to demand what all Americans expect, and that is the Biden administration will follow the rule of law and stop illegal immigration into the United States.”
Although the Biden administration said in May that it would get tough on migration and enforce stricter laws on who would be allowed into the country to seek asylum, that hasn’t happened.
‘It can be stopped’
Abbott — whose state shares a 1,200-mile border with Mexico along the Rio Grande — has long insisted the Biden administration does not enforce border policy effectively.
“The border between the United States and Mexico is the most dangerous land crossing in the world. That is inhumane,” he ranted to The Post. “It can be stopped in one single day, in one single way, and that is for Joe Biden to enforce the current immigration laws on the books.”
When asked about Abbott’s comments, Hochul at an event in Queens was dismissive and tried to shift blame back on the Republicans.
“Let me be clear, I will not be taking advice from Greg Abbott,” she said, before adding: “They are so hypocritical to come here and tell New York how to deal with a crisis that can be resolved if the Republicans . . . pull together a coalition of people who actually will solve this.”
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