Texas Governor Greg Abbott tapped into his inner "Dirty Harry" on Wednesday, telling Mayor Eric Adams to "get my day done." I did it openly. The New Yorker will campaign against his bid for re-election.
Abbott also vowed to continue sending buses ofasylum seekers to New York City. Adams said on Lorne he was just getting a "tasting" of what the beleaguered border community has been dealing with at Star. Post-Biden presidency.
Abbott's comments to Fox News came amid an ongoing feud with Adams over immigrant deportation, in which three charter buses Abbott hired were sent toManhattan. It was just hours after dropping off nearly 100migrants outside the Port Authority Terminal in Midtown, United States.
About 70 people arrived on Friday and Sunday and were joined by transport ships.
In response to Adams' threats on Tuesday, he said he was "deeply considering taking the New Yorker bus to Texas and giving Abbott a good old-fashioned door knock." You know, I feel like Clint Eastwood.
"Go ahead, Mayor. Make my day," he said.
This taunt was inspired by Eastwood in the 1983 film Sudden Impact. It was a reflection of the symbolic lines of His San Francisco detective character "Dirty Harry" confronted a robber who was holding a coffee shop waitress at gunpoint. citing and threatening to reject "any tax increase that Congress might consider submitting."
"He has only one thing to say to the tax raisers. Go ahead, make my day," he added.
said challenger Beto O'Rourke, who was "helped by many New Yorkers."
"It will not be viewed very favorably by Texas," he said.
Abbott also accused Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochol, both Democrats, of "class hypocrisy" for attacking the motives of responding to what he called President Biden's "open-border policy." ', he accused.
"Listen, New York is a sanctuary city," Abbott said.
"Mayor Adams said he welcomes illegal immigrants. And now, when they have to deal with that reality, they suddenly become confused and unable to cope.”
Abbott added, …the state of Texas faces every day.
"Only after the Biden administration has to recognize that it must ultimately enforce the laws passed by Congress will
}Biden administration quietly ended Trump-era 'stay in Mexico' immigration policy on Monday — America clearing way for potential tens of thousands of immigrants Enter and stay here while your asylum application is processed
Time to register asylum seekers in the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) program has increased. Nearly 70,000 border crossings in the last three years. had to return to the south and await immigration.
Abbott, who began sending immigrants to Washington in April, said: D.C., and perhaps even other communities, to mitigate the challenges we are dealing with."
Further, Abbott said, "This national crisis caused by President Biden We want to continue exposing the catastrophe.”
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