Posted on 09/17/2022 10:58:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
New York City officials are thinking about flying illegal immigrants out of the Big Apple to Florida after officials in Texas bussed 11,000 border crossers to the sanctuary city, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.
Manuel Castro, NYC’s Commissioner of Immigration Affairs, said that most of the migrants are from Venezuela, and they want to go to the Sunshine State because it has a large community of Venezuelans.
“Many want to go to places like Florida where the largest community of Venezuelans live,” Castro told Fox News.
The influx of immigrants forced the city’s shelters to reject nearly 1,000 people, who ended up sleeping in the city streets.
Mayor Eric Adams told reporters earlier this week that NYC’s shelters are at a “breaking point.”
“In this new and unforeseen reality, where we expect thousands more to arrive every week going forward, the city’s system is nearing its breaking point,” Adams said in a statement Wednesday.
As a result, the city’s prior practices, which never contemplated the bussing of thousands of people into New York City, must be reassessed.
While some may want to use these extraordinary circumstances as an opportunity to play an unproductive game of gotcha, we remain focused on supporting each of these individuals and families who need our city’s help.
“We’re helping them get to their actual final destination. We’re doing our best,” Adams said. “All states and all cities have a role to play here, not just New York and Chicago and other places.”
New York City law requires the city to provide housing for anyone who requests it, with Castro adding that around 7,300 asylum seekers currently remain in the system.
The system has become so overwhelmed that city hall has had to contract hotel rooms to house the thousands coming into the city.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he chose NYC as an “ideal destination” for migrants because they “can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city.”
“I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief,” Abbott said.
The Texas border town of El Paso has seen a massive surge of illegal crossings in recent weeks that has overwhelmed Border Patrol facilities, and led to a humanitarian crisis where people are literally sleeping in the streets.
Democrat officials in El Paso have been sending their own buses of migrants to NYC, “and just approved up to a $2 million contract for 16 months to bus even more migrants out of town,” Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reported. The Democrat-led city is “also requesting federal reimbursement,” Melugin noted, adding: “El Paso, however, is not being criticized.”
Make the Sancturary cities live up to their own book of rules!
Republicans are finally adopting Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. “Make the opposition play by their own rules”. It’s glorious.
Strange action for a “Sanctuary City.”
Call out the national air guard… Turn the plane around at the border.
I see a lot of Commie RATS picking up a NIMBY at the NIMBY Awards this year.
Which just proves that leftists love their slogans but care not to live it.
That's human trafficking! They can't do that!
See, you open borders cretins. You’ve always wanted an open border. This chaos is what you’ve brought us, you bastards
Is there a way we could exploit this? Yes, in principle, illegal aliens should never have a “path to citizenship.” But until we get our act together and can overcome Democrat cheating, nothing will improve nationally. So, does anyone have a sense if “immigrants” from Venezuela would be a reliable anti-communist segment the way Cubans have been?
Maybe they will get tired of being bused back and forth and go back home...
Theres even more Venezuelans back home in Venezuela ...
If thats all they need ...
They’d feel even better if they go home ...
If the Venezuelans are anti-communist then it is best that they go to blue commie cities to fight for their freedom here.
NYC needs to be careful.
If they send even one person against their will to Florida, the Feds can charge Eric Adams with Kidnapping.
We live in a two-tiered justice system. Eric Adams could do everything that Donald Trump was falsely accused of and nothing...NOTHING would happen.
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No matter what Dims do, they are always high minded, better than you whatever they end up doing.
And they wear the ribbons that prove it.
Why should illegal aliens have the right to make demands as to where they are sent if they are in the U.S. illegally? What is this crap about Venezuelans wanting to be in Florida where the “largest” community of Venezuelans live? This is in your face invasion talking.
What you do is meet the bus coming in from New York and put them on another bus and send them right back.
Maybe after enough of this this the illegals will want to go back where they came from.
What if they don’t want to go to Florida?
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