Texas Democrat laughs at New York City Dems for whining about migrants: 'Only a drop' of border communities

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, called out some of the biggest Democrat-run cities in the country for "complaining" about taking in migrants when border towns have been struggling with the issue for years. 

"The buses that they’re sending to D.C., or Chicago or New York are just a drop of what border communities [face.] And they’re already complaining," Cuellar said on a recent Politico podcast. 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in April that the "migrant crisis" under the Biden administration has "destroyed" his city. But more recently, Adams announced that he would ship migrants to Republican-led counties in upstate New York, in a political maneuver that is being fiercely contested. 

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When asked about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ policy on shipping migrants to major cities in buses, Cuellar said that it’s "always good for people to understand what we’ve been facing at the border for so many years."

The Congressman, who was born in South Texas, also explained the "resentment" that many Hispanics are feeling who are witnessing illegal immigrants "streaming through the border." 

"A lot of first generation American, mainly Hispanics in south Texas are saying ‘hold it, we and our parents came in through a long legal process,’ and they’re seeing people just come through the border and come in."

That causes, Cuellar said, "a little resentment, and I emphasize the word ‘resentment’ because a lot of first generation Hispanics did it the right way, including my father," he said. 

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Cuellar compared the massive influx of illegal immigrants in the U.S. to someone showing up to another person’s home on their time and their rules. 

"If I invite you to come to my house and have dinner at 6pm, and all of a sudden you decide to show up at 12 noon, you decide to come through the back door, you decide to come through a window, you decide to bring 20 of your cousins, brothers and sisters, I would probably say, ‘hold on, that’s not what we talked about.’"

Cuellar also appeared on Fox News Wednesday to discuss the border crisis. 

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"Border Patrol right now, they are at over 124% average over capacity, almost every border sector except for west Texas is over capacity and if the NGOS and the border communities cannot take care of those folks," Cuellar said on "America Reports." He added, "they are going to start doing street releases and again, I’ve been told they have been instructed to go to street releases if they have to." 

The Congressman’s warnings come after Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales revealed he learned from the president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, that more than 80,000 migrants, primarily from Venezuela, are moving toward the border.

President Giammattei also reportedly said he tried to call the White House on the matter, but nobody would take his calls.

Fox News’ Yael Halon contributed to this report. 

Kyle Shanahan claims 49ers have 3 'franchise-like' QBs on the roster

It is usually pretty easy to determine whether an NFL team has a franchise quarterback on its roster. Every year, there always seem to be a handful of teams who are in dire need of a franchise-level signal caller, but they cannot seem to get off the quarterback carousel.

Landing one franchise quarterback is hard enough, but in the case of the San Francisco 49ers, Kyle Shanahan believes they have multiple "franchise-like" players at the position.

Shanahan said that he thinks the trio of Brock Purdy, Trey Lance and Sam Darnold are all more than capable.

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"I do believe we have three quarterbacks talent-wise who are all capable of being franchise-like quarterbacks," Shanahan said on Thursday, according to The Athletic.

"Brock’s done that in his eight [games]. And we have two other guys on our roster who we strongly believe can do that also."

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It remains unclear who will be under center when San Francisco takes the field for their Week 1 game against the Steelers. Brock Purdy is likely the leading candidate, however, his health will be a factor as he continues to recover from a UCL surgery.

49ers general manager John Lynch previously said that Purdy "earned that right to be the guy" 

Purdy, a seventh-round draft pick in 2022, was thrust into the starting role after veteran quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a season-ending foot injury. Garoppolo departed this offseason and signed with the Raiders.

Purdy went 5-0 down the stretch of the regular season and won two playoff games. He led the 49ers to the NFC championship game.

Shanahan and Lynch admitted that they did hear from other teams who were interested in trading for Lance. Earlier this offseason, the 49ers added veteran quarterback Darnold to the roster. He was drafted by the Jets in the first round in 2018 and spent the past two seasons with the Panthers.

Darnold has started 55 games in the NFL.

Shanahan added that In his estimation that Lance, who was the No. 3 overall draft pick In 2021, would "gotten to a level where he would’ve done similar stuff" to what Purdy did last season if injuries had not set him back during the past two seasons.

"We did expect Trey Lance [to be the man for a long time] and I think that he still can be. You also don’t expect the last pick in the draft to come in and play at that level," Shanahan said. 

"He missed that opp and Brock came in and did. I truly think Trey can go in and do that, but Brock’s already done it and that’s a very good thing for us to have."

The 49ers will enter the 2023 season as the favorites to win the NFC West division and are largely expected to contend for the Super Bowl.

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