Because there is no actual plan of action, or cooperative coordination between the States to ensure a safe transfer of this already vulnerable to exploitation population?
Or did I miss the part where Abott (and AZ Gov) called the New York and DC Govs and said "how do we get this done?".
Edit: this whole ploy is political grandstanding at the expense of treating these people as expendable.
Well, there should be a plan of action which should be coordinated at the top, as this is a national issue. Why does it have to be where every state has to fend for itself without any help from other states? I know that, at least in my own state, there have been groups trying to help, scrambling to find shelter and other necessities for these people - but there's also homeless and a lot of poverty here, too.
Abbott and Ducey are definitely right-wing scumbags for exacerbating the problem, but the root of the problem rests in NYC and Wall Street, as they're center of the economy, and as such, they're the primary cause of the massive poverty across the U.S. - and far worse poverty in Latin America.
Manhattan has a 10% housing vacancy rate, and it's even higher among luxury housing (source: NYC Apartment Vacancy Rate Jumps Up, But ‘Housing Emergency’ Status Survives - THE CITY). They have deep pockets and plenty of vacant homes available, far better off than the poverty-stricken southern tier of the U.S. They have the infrastructure and the vast wealth to handle it, far more than the impoverished small towns and cities along the border.