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It probably has a lot more to do with the amount and condition of how they arrived than anything. Getting 30k people that largely have passports and money is totally different than 30k people arriving with nothing.
The border also sees way more asylum seekers, which also adds to the difficulty. If Abbot was able to send 37k to New York alone, the numbers he's dealing with dwarf the 30k Ukrainians New York got.
I don't see how we're going to complain about these migrants being broke when we're simultaneously forbidding them from seeking legal employment. As for the passport issue, it's not like it's the migrants fault they're fleeing areas with dysfunctional governments with disorganized paperwork. With the surveillance technology and level of control we have over our own territory we should be able to find some way to address whatever reasonable security concerns officials might have.
Work authorization would help, but it's not a silver bullet. These migrants need more aid, and are more economic in nature, as they've generally spent a month+ traveling through Mexico in a somewhat constant state of dehydration and starvation. Comparing them to people who mostly had established lives and had to grab what they could to flee a war isn't really a fair comparison.