DC Mayor Complains about city homeless shelters filling up with migrants bussed from Texas

DC is only 'experiencing a fraction of the disaster created by Biden's reckless border policies': Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tears into Washington Mayor Bowser complaining that city's homeless shelters are filling up with migrants 'dumped' by his state

• Texas Governor Greg Abbott's team said Monday that Washington, D.C. is 'experiencing a fraction of the disaster created by President Biden' 
• Comes after Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey started sending migrants from there states to D.C. to bring the border crisis to the nation's capital
• A spokesperson for Abbott told DailyMail.com in a statement he 'launched the border bus mission back to help provide support' to border communities
• Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser slammed Texas and Arizona's governors for sending migrants by the busload to the nation's capital
• Claimed they are to blame for homeless shelters reaching capacity in the city

Governor Greg Abbott's office claims that Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is only seeing a 'fraction of the disaster' at the southern border after she complained that her city's homeless shelters are filling up with migrants bused from Texas and Arizona.

'Border communities are overrun and overwhelmed, and Governor Abbott launched the border bus mission back in April to help provide support to these communities pleading for help where the Biden Administration is dumping migrants,' Abbott spokeswoman Renae Eze told DailyMail.com in a statement.

She added: 'With our nation's capital now experiencing a fraction of the disaster created by President Biden's reckless open border policies that our state faces every single day, maybe he'll finally do his job and secure the border.'

The response from Abbott comes after Bowser lamented Sunday of Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey sending migrants to D.C. 

Since April, the two states have sent at least 4,000 migrants to the nation's capital.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's team said Monday that Washington, D.C. is 'experiencing a fraction of the disaster created by President Biden' now that they are feeling the effects of migrants being sent there from Texas and Arizona

The goal, according to Abbott, was to bring the crisis to the doorsteps of President Joe Biden and other D.C. elite to elicit a stronger response to the southern border crisis from the administration.

Eze told DailyMail.com that 'Biden's open border policies have created an ongoing humanitarian crisis, with record-high illegal crossings and deadly drugs like fentanyl flooding into our state.'

In June, the number of migrants apprehended by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) actually decreased for the first time in five months.

Despite this, Bowser says that Washington, D.C.'s homeless shelters are filling up due to the increase of migrants in the city.

Ducey followed Abbott's lead earlier this summer in sending migrants from their respective states to D.C. to take some of the load off communities in their states.

Homeless shelters in the nation's capital are starting to cap out with these asylum-seekers due to this initiative. 

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser blasted Abbott and Arizona GOP Governor Doug Ducey for busing migrants from their states to the nation's capital, claiming they are to blame for the boost in crowded homeless shelters

Since April, Texas and Arizona have sent a combined 4,000 migrants to the District, with officials in both states claiming that migrants voluntarily agreed to take the bus trip north.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started sending asylum-seekers to D.C. in April to ship the migration crisis to where lawmakers and the president would see it more prominently, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey followed his lead in May

Since April, Texas and Arizona have sent a combined 4,000 migrants to the District