Texas Governor Is Being Petty (and Foolish) and New Yorkers Are Feeling It.

 What is Governor Greg Abbott of Texas doing? He's busing immigrants to New York City:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is criticizing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for sending busloads of migrants to the city, saying that Abbott "used innocent people as political pawns to manufacture a crisis."

"Unlike Governor Abbott, New York City will always do our part," Adams said via Twitter, after his office posted images of the mayor greeting migrants and refugees arriving at the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan.

"This is horrific when you think about what [Abbot] is doing," Adams said on Sunday, according to the Gothamist website, which reports that more than 4,000 immigrants had arrived from Texas so far.

New York isn't alone: Abbott's office says Texas has already sent more than 6,100 migrants on buses to Washington, D.C., as NPR reported. Both cities are now the main targets in Abbott's program to send people who recently crossed the U.S. southern border to locations on the East Coast.

Both Adams and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser are asking for federal aid to help their cities cope with the new flow of migrants, many of whom are being assisted by volunteers, non-profits and shelters in addition to city agencies.

Abbott and Republican leaders in nearby border states are seeking to blame Democrats for the country's longstanding immigration crisis. On Friday, Abbott — who is in the midst of a reelection campaign — mocked Adams' description of New York as a "sanctuary city," calling it an "ideal destination for these migrants."

This is really political theater, considering that just as recently as 2019 US citizens were moving to Mexico:

In a twist to the decades-long trend of Mexican immigrants journeying to the United States, data indicates that in recent years, more people have done the opposite, moving from the US to its southern neighbor in droves.

From 2009 to 2014, 1 million Mexicans, including their American-born children, left the US for Mexico, according to the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics, cited by the Pew Research Center.

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There are a couple of reasons that more people are returning to Mexico than are migrating to the United States, but the main one is the US economy's slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, according to Pew.

Beyond that, Mexicans have an increasingly optimistic view of their lives south of the US-Mexico border.

A 2015 Pew survey found that 48% of Mexican adults said they believe life is better in the US, and 33% said they believe it is neither better nor worse than life in Mexico — 10 percentage points higher than in a 2007 survey.

The migration trend has affected life in Mexico, with American immigrants helping to boost local Mexican economies and transform neighborhoods and schools, The Post reported.

"It's beginning to become a very important cultural phenomenon," the Mexican foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, told The Post. "Like the Mexican community in the United States."

A 2015 study from Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography found that the vast majority of Americans living in Mexico were unauthorized immigrants or had errors with their paperwork.

But unlike the Trump administration, which has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and deport those who don't have valid visas or green cards, the Mexican government has largely shrugged off the issue.

"We have never pressured them to have their documents in order," Ebrard told The Post.