GOP states push back against DC, NYC calls for federal help with migrant surge

Republican states, including those at the southern border, are pushing back against calls from Democratic politicians in Washington D.C. and New York City for federal help with alleged surges in illegal immigrants hitting their cities — arguing that those cities are dealing with the effects of liberal immigration policies by the Biden administration.

Both NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser have blamed Arizona and Texas for sending migrants to their cities, which they say is straining their social services, including homeless shelters.

Bowser claimed that migrants have been “tricked” into getting on buses to the nation’s capital and called for federal aid.

“Local taxpayers are not picking up the tab. They should not pick up the tab,” Bowser said. “We really need a coordinated federal response. We know that it’s done for refugees who come to the states from all points of the world and the same has to be done in this situation.”

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Adams, meanwhile, said NYC is dealing with a “marked increase” in asylum seekers, with more than 2,800 entering the city’s shelter system.

“In some instances, families are arriving on buses sent by the Texas and Arizona governments, while in other cases, it appears that individuals are being sent by the federal government,” he said in a statement.

Both Texas and Arizona have been moving migrants to the nation’s capital as part of an effort to bring what they say are the consequences of “open border” policies to the politicians who promote them — but they both denied sending any migrants to the Big Apple. They have also urged those mayors to turn their attention to the Biden administration, not to their states.

In a statement, Arizona Gov. Doug…