NYC Mayor Adams says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is a ‘global embarrassment’

The miffed New York City mayor keeps messing with Texas’ top official.

After another round of rattled asylum seekers from Texas arrived in New York on Wednesday, Mayor Adams said Gov. Greg Abbott is betraying American ideals and damaging the nation’s reputation, intensifying a whirlwind war of words between the two leaders.

“He is an anti-American governor that is really going against everything we stand for,” Adams, a Democrat, said at a news conference in Jamaica, Queens. “He is a global embarrassment. Because this is not what we do as Americans.”

Noting that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants, Adams suggested Abbott would not be leading Texas if the Republican’s ancestors had been treated like the Texas asylum seekers.

Since the spring, the migrants have been shipped by the busload to New York and Washington, D.C., part of a Texas government protest of President Biden’s border policies.

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Some have made the multi-day trip from the southwestern border to New York against their will. Adams has said that more than 4,000 asylum seekers have reached the city.

Three more buses arrived on Wednesday morning, according to the city, which did not provide an exact tally of how many asylum seekers were onboard.

“We don’t know the count,” Adams told reporters, adding that some migrants may have disembarked before reaching New York, fearing arrest by law enforcement.

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But the commissioner of immigrant affairs, Manuel Castro, estimated the Wednesday newcomers numbered more than 100, and said eight required medical treatment.

“We’re triaging, working through some of the more urgent cases,” Castro told WYNC in a call from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. “We’re seeing people arrive in pretty bad shape.”

Castro said the city was distributing COVID tests and protective equipment to the migrants, who lacked food or money. The group included about a dozen children, he added.

New York City is obliged to provide housing to those in need under a statewide right to shelter provision, and is a so-called sanctuary city. Sanctuary cities resist releasing undocumented immigrants for deportation.

On Wednesday, Abbott accused Adams of “rank hypocrisy.”

“Mayor Adams said that they welcome in illegal immigrants — and now, once they have to deal with the reality of it, they’re suddenly flummoxed, and they cannot handle it,” Abbott told Fox News. “They are now getting a taste of what we are having to deal with.”

He urged Adams to follow through after the mayor joked Tuesday that he was “deeply contemplating” sending a bus filled with New Yorkers to Texas to campaign for Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat challenging Abbott in Texas’ November general election.

“I kind of feel like Clint Eastwood — go ahead, mayor, make my day,” Abbott told Fox News with a grin, channeling a line delivered by a violent, gun-toting Eastwood character in the 1983 film “Sudden Impact.”

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The race between Abbott and O’Rourke has tightened in recent weeks, after the Republican held a wide lead earlier in the campaign, according to opinion polls. But Abbott remains the heavy favorite.

Adams, who has accused Abbott of creating a crisis and using the migrants as political pawns, said Wednesday that he has not communicated with O’Rourke’s campaign and that he is primarily focused on ensuring the availability of services for the newcomers from Texas.

Still, the mayor pledged to “do everything feasible to make sure the people of Texas know how harmful” Abbott is to America’s global reputation. And he dismissed the governor’s Hollywood taunts.

“I know he thinks he’s Clint Eastwood,” Adams said. “But he’s not.”