Illegal immigration is not just a border problem

We would have loved the opportunity to have been a fly on the wall had New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser accepted Gov. Greg Abbott’s offer to visit Texas for a firsthand view of border problems.

Abbott’s invitation went out this week shortly after Adams and Bowser publicly asked the Biden administration for help with a surge of asylum-seeking migrants in their cities. The governor’s pointed letter smelled of a political stunt, not unlike his earlier decision to bus migrants to Washington and now to...