New York City Mayor Adams sends 'fact-finding' delegation to border amid tensions over migrant buses

New York Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has sent a "fact-finding" delegation to the southwestern U.S. border, as Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott continues to busing migrants to Adams' and other major U.S. cities.

The New York delegation met Tuesday with Border Patrol officials near the Rio Grande River in Texas, where hundreds of migrants enter the United States daily.

Abbott says he's sending migrant to the liberal-leaning cites – New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. – because his border state is continuously under economic pressure to provide for them, while also trying to make the political point that the county's immigrant policies need changes. 

Adams' office says it sent a delegation to Texas to gather information it's being stonewalled by Abbott.

"We’ve sent members of the team down on a fact-finding mission to hear directly from folks on the ground along the southern border and get the real answers we’re not getting from Texas, including whether they are sending asylum seekers to New York City even if they prefer to go elsewhere," the mayor's press secretary, Fabian Levy, told Fox News.

Adams' office has called Abbott "unresponsive" to demands for information and accuses him of trying to turn the issue of record migration into a "political sideshow."

Still, New York will "continue to welcome asylum seekers," Levy said.

Abbott's press secretary Renae Eze said the "invitation is still open for Mayor Adams to come visit our southern border and see firsthand the devastating impacts of the Biden-made crisis on border towns smaller than a NYC borough — instead of sending his staffers on a secret trip to Texas."