Joe’s homeland boss: Blame Texas, not us

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Wednesday for the scores of migrants pouring into blue cities and states across the US — without any examination of the Biden administration’s own policies.

“Let me identify one fundamental problem here, and that is the fact that we have one governor in the state of Texas who is refusing to cooperate with other governors and other local officials,” Mayorkas said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in response to grumbling from Democratic mayors — including New York’s Eric Adams — over a lack of federal help to deal with the new arrivals.

“It’s a remarkable failure of governance to refuse to cooperate with one’s fellow local and state officials.”

At least 95,000 migrants have been flown or bused out of Texas to so-called “sanctuary cities” such as New York, Washington,

Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles— over the objections of officials in those destinations — since Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021, according to the Governor’s Office.

Meanwhile, Texas is in a court fight with the White House over the laying of border razor wire to deter illegal migration — a barrier that Biden administration says it wants to remove.

In response to Mayorkas, Abbott harped on the secretary’s suggestion that “climate change, poverty, increasing level of authoritarianism” were the root causes of the border surge.

“Climate change? Mayorkas is pathetic,” Abbott wrote on X. “The REAL reason illegal immigration records are being set is because Biden refuses to enforce immigration laws.

“We will send more buses and planes,” the governor added.

Democrats are blasting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for helping migrants travel to — and overwhelm — cities like New York. But they leave Abbott no choice. Team Biden, after all, won’t lift a finger to stem the tsunami of migrants submerging his state. Instead, it’s doing everything it can to make it impossible for Abbott to deal with the newcomers.

Team Biden sued Abbott for putting up razor wire to prevent migrants from illegally crossing into Texas. It also plans to oppose a new Texas law letting local law enforcement deport those who have broken the law.

You won’t let him keep them out. You won’t let him remove them when they’re here. So why is it then Texas’ responsibility alone to deal with the cost of this onslaught? The buses north are the only way to relieve the pressure on El Paso, Brownsville, Laredo and other cities.

And Dems like Mayor Adams and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who bash Abbott but won’t demand President Biden regain control of the border, only make matters worse. For Abbott — and themselves.

Texas’ leader won’t “cooperate with other governors” and address the “challenge” facing the nation, huffed Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday.

Abbott “wants to disrupt,” Adams railed. “This is a diabolical plan by this governor.”

Sorry, but it’s Mayorkas and Biden who created — intentionally — the very “challenge” they now lament. They could end the crisis overnight, but their goal is to take in as many migrants as possible (with someone else paying for accommodations).

The greater “coordination” they seek won’t reduce the number of migrants flooding in and needing accommodation. It won’t create more beds or produce more funds for them.

Fact is, only one thing can ease the crisis mayors and governors face: stopping the surge. Yet Dems don’t want that — or at least won’t publicly demand it from Biden.

Mayorkas, who now faces impeachment proceedings in the House for mishandling of the border, is covering for Biden when he shifts blame to Abbott. No one is buying it.