“This is horrific, when you think about what the governor is doing,” Adams said in an early morning visit to the Port Authority bus terminal, where he greeted a bus transporting arriving migrants.

The Republican Texas governor announced on Friday that he was sending buses of migrants to the city. Adams, a moderate Democrat, has been charging for weeks that the state was sending asylum seekers to New York and overwhelming the city’s homeless shelters, but Abbott previously denied it.

Adams said migrants were being forced onto buses — even if they wanted to go to destinations other than New York. Some were falsely told they would be taken to their desired destination, only to find themselves bound for New York, he said.

“Some of the families are on the bus that wanted to go to other locations, and they were not allowed to do so. They were forced on the bus,” Adams said. “Our goal is to immediately find out each family’s needs and give them the assistance they want.”