The broadside came amid Adams’ repeated threats to sue “Texas” — without specifying who — over the busloads of immigrants that have been arriving in the Big Apple almost daily for more than a month. An Abbott spokesman accused Adams of “lying and selectively attacking the bus business in Texas while conveniently ignoring the immigrants who were brought to New York from the Democratic-led El Paso and transported by President Biden.” “Instead of complaining about a few thousand immigrants being bused into the self-proclaimed sanctuary city and using those immigrants for political attacks, Mayor Adams should be calling on President Biden to take immediate action on border security — which President continues to fail to do. Abbott’s press secretary Renae Eze added. Adams, a Democrat, had been engaged in a war of words with Abbott since the Republican governor began taking immigrants to Washington and then expanded the program to New York. Abbott, who began sending migrants to Chicago late last month, said the program is meant to protest Biden’s “irresponsible open border policies” and their impact on border communities in the Lone Star State. Abbott pointed out that Adams has not complained about immigrants sent to New York by the city of El Paso or the Biden administration.GNMiller/NYPost Last week, The Post revealed that Adams recently spoke with El Paso’s Democratic Mayor Oscar Lesser, who has also begun sending buses of immigrants into the city amid a surge of about 1,400 people a day, from 200 to 300. “We’re very grateful to Mayor Adams from New York who really stepped in to help us and, you know, he told me when I talked to him that there’s no community in New York from Venezuela.” Leeser said at a Sept. 12 El Paso City Council work session.
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“But he’s going to welcome them into his community and then work with them to get them into a community where there’s, there’s peers, so they can continue to be there and that’s really important to him.” Last year, The Post also revealed that the Biden administration was secretly using charter planes to fly immigrant minors to the Westchester County Airport north of the city. Adams agreed to accept immigrants sent to the city by El Paso Mayor Oscar Lesser. Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images From there, they were bussed to meet with relatives or sponsors, or transferred to a church-based child housing facility on Long Island. These flights were suspended due to the ensuing outrage, but the practice later quietly continued. On Sunday, Adams said “our legal team is looking at what legal challenges we could make with Texas.” Adams said city officials are considering legal options to prevent Texas from sending more busloads of immigrants.GNMiller/NYPost “We think there are some options that we have because when you involuntarily put somebody on a bus, we think that’s actually against the law,” he added. Abbott’s spokesman insisted his operation was 100% legal. “The migrants on the Texas buses willingly chose to go to New York, having signed a voluntary waiver of consent available in multiple languages upon boarding that they agreed to the destination,” Eze said. “Each bus is stocked with food and water and stops along the journey to refuel and change drivers. Immigrants are permitted to purchase any necessary supplies or disembark at any of these stops as they have been processed and released by the federal government.”
