Posted on 08/05/2022 11:34:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Friday he has started to send buses carrying migrants to New York City in an effort to push responsibility for border crossers to Democratic mayors and U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
The first bus arrived early on Friday at the city's Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan carrying around 50 migrants. Volunteers were helping to steer people who had no relatives in town to city resources.
"Most of them don't have anybody to help. They don't know where to go, so we're taking them to shelters," said one volunteer at the bus station.
One family of four from Colombia, who ended up at a homeless intake center in the Bronx, were unsure of where they would spend the night. Byron and Leidy, both 28, said they left the country's capital Bogota because they were having trouble finding work.
"It's a little easier to enter the country now, before it was very hard to come here with children," said Leidy, who traveled with her kids Mariana, 7, and Nicolas, 13. She said the family had hoped someone they knew in New York would take them in, but that plan did not work out. "We came here because they said they would help us find a place to sleep to not have to stay in the street," Leidy said.
Abbott said New York City Mayor Eric Adams could provide services and housing for the new arrivals.
"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 in a statement.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, another Republican, has followed Abbott's lead and bused another 1,000 to Washington.
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You got that right. We should make them stand by the substance of their slogans.
Maryann Tharappel, who directs NYC’s immigrant and refugee services: “The infrastructure in New York is not built for BUSLOADS of migrants,” she said. “We are not on the border.”
But.....to quote NYC suckup mayor:
“NYC will continue to be one ‘sanctuary city‘. But for me, ‘sanctuary city ‘ means more than just saying that we will not work together with ICE and we will not allow our agencies to persecute our undocumented residents, we must go further, “said Mayor Eric Adams....
... ........it is essential “to make sure that these undocumented New Yorkers are being given the support they need, so that their families no longer live in the shadows of the American dream, but are part of that dream.”
Exactly! Every wealthy enclave on the East Coast needs a few bus loads.
They are shipping them here to the Midwest. In the last few months, it has become noticeable with the Latino panhandling families increasing.
Send more illegals to the libtard states they just love them taking jobs
One bus of 50? Lol… read articles about this weeks ago and that’s the best abbutt can do? I will be impressed when he sends 500 buses of 50. Something tells me he won’t.
Thank god for people like Greg Abbott!!!
Welcome to America new immigrants. You will soon discover that it would have been better if you had stayed in your home country. America isn’t what you think it is, gone are the days where you could make a new life with your hard work. People use to care but you will soon see that everyone is going to take advantage of you especially the Democrat politicians bent on making you there new house boy.
One bus of 50? Lol… read articles about this weeks ago and that’s the best abbutt can do? I will be impressed when he sends 500 buses of 50. Something tells me he won’t.
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Thousands of idle school buses in his state, probably state funded. They got time for a round trip before school starts. Load ‘em up and use the National Guard to operate them.
Reminds me of the hurricane Katrina busses. Abbot is just playing governor because Desantis is the master of effective conservative action. Texas has gone purple to blue.
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