Texas border sheriffs criticize Washington DC officials for comparing capitol to ‘border town’

Sheriffs currently stationed at the US-Mexico border have criticized Washington D.C. officials for declaring a public emergency over the migrants that have been bused there by Texas and Arizona and are furious at allegations they have turned Washington DC into a “border town.”

“They have seen nothing. They are not a border town. They don’t know what a border town is,” Goliad County, Texas, Sheriff Roy Boyd said to Fox News in a recent interview.

On Thursday, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency over the migrant buses which have been arriving in D.C. from Texas and Arizona since April. Bowser said a public emergency allow the city to create an Office of Migrant Services, which would provide migrants with necessities such accommodation, food and drink and medical services.

“We’re putting in place a framework that would allow us to have a coordinated response with our partners,” Bowser said Thursday. “This will include a program to meet all buses, and given that most people will move on, our primary focus is to make sure we have a humane, efficient, welcome process that will allow people to move on to their final destination.”

Boyd went on to say that Border Patrol Officers have confirmed to him that Texas has sent less than 10,000 migrants to D.C. and that his team has had to deal with over 200,000 migrants per month since Biden took over.

“I think it’s all a bunch of political grandstanding, trying to get themselves some attention and squeeze a little bit of money out of the federal government or somewhere else that they can use for whatever they think it’s needed for,” Boyd said. “If they want to see what it looks like. They can come down here for us. It’s being shoved on us by the federal government and their policies and their lack of enforcement.”

As Fox News noted, Boyd is one of several sheriffs and border officials saying D.C. and New York are receiving a small sample of what they have been dealing with for months.

“‘Welcome to our world’ is what they say,” Jonathan Thompson, executive director and CEO of the National Sheriffs’ Association told Fox News Digital. “Welcome to the everyday problems we are facing, and you have been ignoring and that you continue to want to blame someone else for.”