NYC Mayor Eric Adams says Abbott broke promise to coordinate on migrants

Jack Birle

September 18, 12:22 PM September 18, 12:22 PM

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has failed to stay up to his vow to coordinate with him on migrants currently being despatched to his town.

Adams mentioned his calls for coordination had been ignored in spite of effectively producing call with the Texas governor's business office and securing a guarantee to get the job done jointly.

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"We've reached out and said that, let's coordinate and work jointly so we can deal with this disaster with each other. They refused to do so," Adams instructed Jonathan Karl on ABC's This Week Sunday.

When Karl pressed Adams on no matter if he experienced been capable to discuss with Abbott's business office on the cell phone, the mayor said he experienced but that no coordination resulted from the conversation.

"They took the call and stated that they would coordinate — I’m talking about Gov. Abbott. They would coordinate, and they did not coordinate at all, for the reason that I don’t believe it was politically expedient for them to coordinate. It was far more to do this, basically, political gamesmanship that you're seeing now," Adams said.

Abbott has earlier invited Adams to the southern border to exhibit him the predicament relating to migrants and border crossings. Adams reportedly sent some of his officers to the border previously this thirty day period but did not travel himself.

Abbott has been transporting migrants to various cities that pleasure by themselves as "sanctuary cities," which includes Washington, D.C., Chicago, and New York Town. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has not too long ago joined Abbott's pattern and sent two planes of migrants to Martha's Winery, Massachusetts.