could face a variety of penalties including fines and having their buses impounded. today mayor adams office tells fox news texas governor greg abbott continues to treat asylum seekers like political pawns and is instead dropping off families in surrounding cities and states in the cold dark of night with train tickets to travel to new york city. speaking of chicago, another city that is dealing with this mayor adams mentioned chicago in the statement. mayor brandon johnson said that a plane full of 350 migrants arrived at the chicago rockford airport 85 miles outside the city and still sanctuaries cities receive a fraction of the migrants crossing our southern border illegally. in december alone border officials processed over 300,000 migrants for the first time ever in one month. listen to this. it s literally an invasion.
the weekend a plane full of 350 migrants arrived at the chicago rockford airport, 85 miles outside the city, governor abbott said the hypocrisy of these democrat mayors knows no bounds. border officials processed as you mentioned over 300,000 migrants last month alone at the southern border and that is the most ever. mayor adams chief counsel said during the same media availability that since mayor adams executive order last wednesday, not a single bus coming from texas has complied with the order. we are waiting to hear back. gillian. gillian: nate foy, keep us posted on that, joining us from the port authority in manhattan. john: and harvard university big news in a second, but right now, manuel mello, the situation
hours notice. hundreds of migrants were instead bussed to commuter train stations in new jersey, where they rode trains into new york, effectively circumventing the order. a similar situation in the suburbs of chicago, some 350 migrants flown to rockford airport over the weekend, then bused in. tonight, mayor adams is blaming texas governor greg abbott and asking more cities to issue executive orders. it s not about just new york, no city should be going through this, and it s not sustainable. reporter: sources tell abc news there were 302,000 migrant encounters in december alone. the preliminary numbers far surpassing the previous record of nearly 270,000 in september. abbott and other border governors have said until the situation is brought under control and properly addressed, they will continue to send migrants to these so-called sanctuary cities.
stations in new jersey. sources tell fox news so-called chaperones arrived in new jersey with the migrants and guided them ton trains headed for new york city. meeting bus operators avoided penalties threatened by mayor eric adams who issued an executive order restricting migrant drop-offs last wednesday. people and disrupting municipalities. not only in this region. entire country. mayor adams now urges other cities to restrict migrant dropoffs like chicago and surrounding suburbs. where over the weekend mayor brandon johnson said a plane full of 350 migrants arrived at the chicago rockford airport about 85 miles outside the city. as the crisis at our southern border reaches a new peak, today the justice department filed an appeal with the u.s. supreme court requesting that border patrol be allowed to continue removing razor wire installed by texas along the rio grande