Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has agreed to stop busing migrants to New York City or Chicago following a letter from New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot demanding an end to the practice.

Polis agreed on Saturday to stop transporting them to those two locations.

“[T]he Governor had a very productive conversation with Mayor Adams and Mayor Lightfoot today where he shared that there are no more buses scheduled for migrants from Denver to Chicago at this time, and the final chartered transportation to New York City will be successfully completed tomorrow,” a statement from the Colorado governor’s office read.

“The state is partnering with the city of Denver and non-profits to continue assisting the city of Denver to continue to ensure this process is being conducted in a humane manner,” it added.

The change occurred after a letter from Adams and Lightfoot demanded that Polis end the state’s busing of migrants to their cities.

“It is apparent that the influx of asylum seekers has provoked consternation amongst states. Although we share the concerns of accommodating the flood of asylum seekers, overburdening other cities is not the solution. We respectfully demand that you cease and desist sending migrants to New York City and Chicago,” the letter to Polis read.

The letter also addressed media statements by Polis that downplayed his state’s role in transporting migrants.

“We have seen your statements in the media that you are simply accommodating the wishes of migrants to come to cities like New York City and Chicago,” the letter added.

“Both our cities are working tirelessly to ensure that migrants are able to reach their desired destinations where they are reunited with loved ones.  However, you are sending migrants and families to New York City and Chicago that do not have any ties, family members or community networks to welcome them, and at a time where both cities are at maximum capacity in shelter space and available services,” the mayors wrote.

Polis previously addressed a report by Adams to explain why Colorado was busing some migrants to New York City. His office claimed that about 70% of the migrants arriving in Denver did not have Colorado as their final destination.

“No one should play politics with the lives of migrants who came here to escape oppression, and in Colorado, we are honoring our values of treating people with dignity and respect. We are simply carrying out our values of treating every human being with dignity and respect,” the Democratic governor said in a statement on Tuesday.

Chicago has received 3,854 migrants from other states while New York City has received approximately 36,400 over the last nine months, according to the letter from the two governors.

Both Texas and Arizona have bused migrants to sanctuary cities over the past year to respond to the border crisis. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest update stated that more than 16,000 migrants have been bused from his state, including over 4,900 migrants to New York City since August 5 and over 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31.

Former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) officially resigned from the Senate on Sunday after reports broke last year that the congressman would pursue higher education opportunities.

Sasse, who has served as senator for Nebraska since 2015, resigned after accepting a position to become president of the University of Florida, where he will reportedly earn a salary of $1 million.

The Republican politician delivered his farewell address from the Senate floor last week, saying that he never planned on spending a lifetime in Washington after eight years of public service.

“That’s not what our founders envisioned for the people they would send to the federal city,” Sasse said. “They envisioned, rather, congressmen, senators, and presidents who thought of D.C. as a temporary stay.”

“Washington is a place to do a good bit of neighbor-loving work, but then to go back home to the more permanent work of life and flesh and blood whole communities,” he added.

Sasse voted with six other Republican senators to convict former President Donald Trump after the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Trump called the Nebraska senator “Little Ben Sasse” at a May rally in the congressman’s home state, adding Sasse became a “grandstanding, little-respected senator.”

During his farewell speech, Sasse acknowledged that his relationship with Nebraskans had some “marked ups and downs” over the last eight years, making him “the most censured public official in the history of Nebraska.”

“Many times, it felt like a noogie and a slap and a head butt and a hug all at once,” he said.

Shortly after news broke of Sasse’s forthcoming retirement, the senator revealed that he would become the next president at the University of Florida.

The university said in a statement that it had spent months carefully vetting hundreds of applicants for the role and that the school’s 15-member presidential search committee “unanimously recommended United States Senator Dr. Ben Sasse as the sole finalist.”

Former Nebraska Republican Governor Pete Ricketts announced last month he intends to seek his successor’s appointment to become the state’s next U.S. senator to replace Sasse.

“For me, it came down to a single question: How can I best serve the people of Nebraska and advance our conservative values?” Ricketts said in a statement via The Hill. “In Congress, we’re in a fight for the future of our nation, and it’s a fight we have to win. We must cut taxes, strengthen public safety and our national security, and protect our most sacred freedoms.”

“Over the last eight years, we’ve shown the world the real impact conservative leadership can have,” he added. “I want to continue delivering results for our state, fighting to reduce taxes, grow our economy, defend our liberties, and run government more like a business. I’ll never stop working to get the job done, and that’s why I’m asking for Governor-elect [Jim] Pillen’s consideration.”

Sasse, who won a second term in 2020, would have had to run for re-election again in 2026.