More buses filled with migrants left Texas for New York City on Friday, even as Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted there was no more room for them.
Buses chartered by Texas Governor Greg Abbott as part of his efforts to give non-border states a sense of the migrant crisis left Del Rio and Eagle Pass for the Big Apple, as the pipeline of migrants from the border to the big city continues.
Statistics published by The Post this week show 1.23 million immigrants have been legally allowed to cross the border to pursue asylum claims in the past 11 months, according to data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonprofit organization at Syracuse University.
Of those immigrants, 95,000 said they were heading to New York City so far in 2023, according to TRAC data. City Hall said about 60,000 are still in 200 shelters the city has built across the five boroughs and continues to strain resources.
An eyewitness at Eagle Pass – currently a flashpoint of the border crisis – said about three dozen migrants boarded the bus, a mix of single adults and families.
Migrants line up to board Greg Abbott’s chartered bus from Eagle Pass, Texas, to New York City on Friday.James Keivom for the NY Post
A newly arrived immigrant waves and appears emotional as he is admitted to the US at Eagle Pass on Friday. James Keivom for the NY Post
Migrants are processed by border officials in Eagle Pass, Texas, after which they are detained and evaluated. James Keivom for the NY Post
They said: “There were at least six children, including a baby in a yellow onesie who were on it. They said it would be a long bus ride, and it would take about two and a half days to get to New York City.”
Another bus leaves the city for Chicago. On Friday Governor Abbott announced he would provide more buses from Eagle Pass to destinations across the US for immigrants.
He also announced he would start taking people out of El Paso, a Democratic-controlled city that had long refused to let the governor run buses, but which was also overwhelmed.
Sources told The Post Friday the city expects an influx of 9,000 people in the coming days as more caravans of asylum seekers head to the border.
Governor Hochul’s hypocrisy is astounding,” Abbott Press Secretary Andrew Mahaleris told The Post Friday.
“With millions of residents, New York deals with only a fraction of what our small border communities face every day. Instead of complaining about about 14,000 immigrants being sent to New York City from Texas, Governor Hochul should have called the leader of his party, President Biden, who has flown many immigrants to New York and often under night cover.”
The buses hired by Abbott represent only a drop in the sea of huge waves of immigrants. Most either fund their own way once they cross the border or are helped by many charitable organizations, traveling by bus or plane to their final destination across the country.
Just before the bus at Eagle Pass departed, another bus full of immigrants from Del Rio in Texas arrived at the New York Port Authority bus station.
Like the 14,000 who arrived in the city last month, they will be given a hotel or shelter to stay in, but may not be able to stay there as long as others, who have been staying for months.
A bus carrying migrants from Del Rio, Texas, arrived in New York City on Friday morning.Robert Miller for the NY Post
When the immigrants arrived, they lined up to board another bus to take them to the city’s Robert Miller processing center for the NY Post
The Army National Guard monitors immigrants and answers questions for them as best they can. Robert Miller for the NY Post
The migrants were taken to the Roosevelt Hotel and processed. New York City has received 14,000 migrants a month in July and August.Stephen Yang for the NY Post
Like the 14,000 who have arrived in the city in the last month, they will be given a hotel or shelter to stay in, but may not be able to stay there as long as others, who have been staying for months.
Hochul advocates overturning New York City’s “right to shelter” law that guarantees a bed to anyone who asks for one.
He told CNN Wednesday that the ordinance was never meant to “house literally the whole world,” adding: “It was never intended to be an unlimited universal right, or an obligation on cities, to literally house the whole world.”
The Adams administration wants to impose a deadline on how long immigrants can expect the city to pay for their accommodation — 30 days for single adults, 60 days for families.
This week, the Biden administration said it would offer temporary legal status to some 472,000 Venezuelans who arrived in the country on July 31, prompted in part by calls from Adams and Hochul to allow more immigrants in New York to work legally, instead of moving on. to the black economy.
Federal law prevents asylum seekers from applying for a work permit until six months after their asylum application is filed, to prevent people from claiming asylum for purely economic reasons.
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