From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast.

It's Monday, August 8th.

Well, it's getting personal now between Mayor Eric Adams and Texas Governor Greg Abbott,

and what's personal between political giants

has real-life implications for struggling families. Abbott has begun sending people seeking asylum

in this country who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas to New York City. Mayor Adams says

some of them against their will to make a point to New York.

You want to be a sanctuary city, you take them.

A second bus arrived at Port Authority with asylum seekers yesterday in this explicit campaign.

And according to groups that help settle immigrant arrivals in the city, this has actually been going on for weeks.

Flooding the shelter and intake systems,

Adams estimates it's 4,000 asylum seekers up from the border since May, but it's only in the last

few days that Governor Abbott has said openly that he's doing this. Here's Mayor Adams yesterday

after personally greeting the latest arrivals at the bus terminal

and listen to what he's accusing Texas of.

Some of the families are on the bus that wanted to go to other locations and they were

not allowed to do so.

They were forced on the bus with the understanding that they were going to other locations that they wanted to go to.

Mayor Adams, so what's the best response here from city officials?

What's the federal government's responsibility?

The mayor is asking for federal help.

Does Abbott have a right to disperse asylum seekers to different parts of the country if

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