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New York Mayor Eric Adams, left, and Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee, right, listen as Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference about the search for a gunman that has been targeting homeless men sleeping on the streets of Washington, and New York City, Monday, March 14, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

D.C. declares ‘emergency’ over migrants being bused into city

By Matt Delaney and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants hold Red Cross blankets after arriving from Texas on buses at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 27, 2022. The Pentagon has rejected a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance for the thousands of migrants being bused to the city from two southern states. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

140 migrants arrive in NYC in the biggest single-day total

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Migrants hold Red Cross blankets after arriving from Texas on buses at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 27, 2022. The Pentagon has rejected a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance for the thousands of migrants being bused to the city from two southern states. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Tenn., Georgia locals report issues with migrants heading to NYC, D.C.

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Border Patrol agent watches as a group of migrants walk across the Rio Grande on their way to turn themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, on June 15, 2021. The Supreme Court has certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a cornerstone Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. It was a pro forma act that has drawn attention amid near-total silence from the White House about when, how and even whether it will dismantle the policy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

ACLU tells feds not to work with Texas on arrest of illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference on March 10, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File) **FILE**

Texas starts busing illegal immigrants directly to New York

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference on March 10, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Abbott has said that he stopped at a campaign fundraiser following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde and “let people know” he couldn't stay, but a newspaper reports that he was there for nearly three hours. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Texas governor invites D.C., NYC mayors to visit border for personal look at migrant ‘crisis’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference on March 10, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Abbott has said that he stopped at a campaign fundraiser following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde and “let people know” he couldn't stay, but a newspaper reports that he was there for nearly three hours. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spent hours at fundraiser after Uvalde shooting

Associated Press

FILE - Democrat Beto O'Rourke listens to a volunteer before a Texas Organizing Project neighborhood walk in West Dallas on June 9, 2021. O'Rourke raised $32 million in the first half of 2022 in his run for Texas governor, his campaign announced Friday, July 15, 2022, keeping his challenge against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on pace to be one of the nation's most expensive races of November's midterm elections. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

O’Rourke’s campaign for Texas governor outraises Abbott

By Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

In this file photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference on March 10, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File) **FILE**

Texas to send illegal immigrants back to border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Searchers work at the scene, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in San Antonio, where officials say dozens of people have been found dead and multiple others were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses after a semitrailer containing suspected migrants was found. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Biden complains of ‘political grandstanding’ as Republicans blame him for migrant deaths

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., joins abortion-rights activists as they demonstrate following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

AOC accuses GOP lawmakers of ‘killing women and pregnant people’

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Beto O'Rourke, Democratic candidate for Texas governor, addresses a crowd about supporting teachers at a campaign event, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Brownsville, Texas.(Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

Beto O’Rourke trims Gov. Greg Abbott’s lead after Texas school shooting, poll finds

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks to the press after he was kicked out for interrupting a news conference headed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Uvalde, Texas Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Upping the antics: Beto’s barge-in performance is latest act in America’s new political theater

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Migrants walk past razor wire fencing to be taken by the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande river in Eagle Pass, Texas, Sunday,May 22, 2022. The U.S. government has expelled migrants more than 1.9 million times under Title 42, named for a 1944 public health law, denying them a chance to seek asylum as permitted under U.S. law and international treaty for purposes of preventing the spread of COVID-19. President Joe Biden wanted to end Title 42, but a federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction that keeps it intact. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Texas plugs Biden’s border gaps with razor wire and prosecutions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference, Friday, May 27, 2022, about the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Texas Gov. Abbott ‘livid’ over being ‘misled’ about delayed response Uvalde school massacre

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A woman cries as she leaves the Uvalde Civic Center, Tuesday May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing multiple children and a teacher and wounding others, Gov. Greg Abbott said, and the gunman was dead. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Gunman, the ‘face of evil,’ kept intentions under wraps until moments before massacre, governor says

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Police walk near Robb Elementary School following a shooting, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Governor identifies Texas school shooting suspect

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House, May 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. The Texas Supreme Court is allowing the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse. But in a mixed ruling Friday, May 13, 2022, the court also handed a victory to one family that was among the first contacted by child welfare officials following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas Supreme Court allows state to pursue gender-transition child-abuse investigations

By Alex Swoyer and Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Truckers block the entrance into the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in Ciudad Juarez going into New Mexico on April 12, 2022. The truckers blocked the port as a protest to the prolonged processing times implemented by Gov. Abbott which they say have increased from 2-3 hours up to 14 hours in the last few days. (Omar Ornelas /The El Paso Times via AP)

New Mexico seeks opportunity in Texas border disruptions

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

National Guardsmen stands watch over a fence near the International bridge where thousands of Haitian migrants have created a makeshift camp, on Sept. 18, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas confirms National Guard soldier’s death at border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times