Politico is reporting that Mayor Eric Adams has been dropped from a list of Biden campaign surrogates. Apparently he crossed a line with some of his recent criticism of the White House, specifically it’s handling of the border crisis.

Adams is among several lawmakers who were initially named to the president’s National Advisory Board in March but no longer appear on a roster of 50 prominent Democrats released by the campaign Wednesday…

The outspoken mayor of the nation’s largest city has in recent weeks pointedly criticized Biden over the White House’s response to the asylum-seeker crisis. New York City has projected billions of dollars in costs to provide shelter, food and other services to over 60,000 migrants. Adams has called for more funding from the federal government, an organized resettlement strategy at the border and expedited work permits to help him manage the influx. And as the expiration of a key border policy set for later this week grew closer, Adams amped up his rhetoric, most recently lumping the sitting Democratic president in the same boat with the congressional Republicans.

“It is not about the asylum-seekers and migrants, all of us came from somewhere to pursue the American Dream,” he said last week. “It is the irresponsibility of the Republican Party in Washington for refusing to do real immigration reform, and it’s the irresponsibility of the White House for not addressing this problem.”

There’s one reason and one reason only why Mayor Adams suddenly sounds like a border state governor. That’s because New York City now has some significant skin in the game when it comes to the border crisis.

The Big Apple is taking in up to 1,000 migrants every day — and that number could increase with tomorrow’s lifting of Title 42, Mayor Eric Adams’ head of immigration services said Wednesday.

Manuel Castro made the stunning admission at a council budget hearing, as he said the current tally of 61,000 migrants who have arrived in the city will skyrocket “unless something changes.”

“We’re seeing 800 to 1,000 people arrive, right, in recent days, when they arrive in multiple buses, and then by airlines, we can see over 1,000 people a day arrive,” said Castro, who is the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

If not for those buses full of migrants, Mayor Adams wouldn’t be saying a peep and he’d still be in the good graces of the White House. But because they keep arriving he’s not only upset, he’s even taking up Gov. Abbott’s approach and looking to bus some of them out of the city. Today, there’s an expected showdown taking place at a hotel in the Hudson Valley.

Local police officers and sheriff’s deputies kept watch on the grounds of the Crossroads Hotel in the town of Newburgh Wednesday morning, setting up a potential showdown with the expected arrival of a busload of migrants sent there by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The police are there to attempt to enforce a local state of emergency designed to prevent the hotel from housing the migrants, according to Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus.

In an interview, Neuhaus said he spoke directly with Adams early Wednesday morning and asked him to hold off on sending the expected bus of 60 individuals — which the mayor’s office signaled would soon be on its way as recently as late Tuesday…

“I asked him to stop that,” Neuhaus said. “Whether he does that or not, I don’t know. If they do come into the county [Wednesday], we’ll have a problem because they are going against our state of emergency and that is going to create a very difficult situation. ”

No one wants to deal with this problem, not even when NYC has offered to pay for the lodging and meals for these migrants. Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, who is leaving office next week, is another blue city mayor who is begging for relief. She seems not to have learned much from the experience.

On Sunday, Lightfoot sent a letter to Abbott calling his actions “inhumane and dangerous” and saying the city is “tapped out.”

Chicago has taken in more than 8,000 migrants since August, Lightfoot said, with more on the way. Officials project a $53 million shortfall because of the surge.

“If Chicago can’t deal with 8,000 in less than a year, how are small Texas border communities supposed to manage 13,000 in just one day?” Abbott wrote in his response letter.

Texas does get federal money for dealing with the problem but as the governor pointed out, it also deals with vastly more people. Close to 11,000 people crossed the border yesterday alone and Lightfoot is whining about one of America’s largest cities having to deal with 8,000 in 8 or 9 months.

Nothing seems likely to get better so long as the White House strategy remains to pretend they’re doing a great job managing this when all they’re really doing is releasing people to make way for the next bunch. The official line is that the border is not open but the migrants and the coyotes know they are effectively open, especially if you’re willing to game the asylum system for a few years.

Here’s a local news story from New York last week.

Compare that to this story about what’s happening this week in El Paso.