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ANOTHER migrant bus arrives in NYC from Texas with 89 people on board – including five children: Ambulance waits at Port Authority for ‘very sick’ person arriving as ‘a number’ of passengers test COVID positive
- Another busload of 89 immigrants arrived in NYC from Texas today, including one family with a child as young as one
- An ambulance waited at Port Authority for a ‘very, very sick’ passenger
- Several of the passengers have been tested for COVID and are positive
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New York City welcomed another busload of 89 immigrants from Texas today, including one family with a child as young as one.
An ambulance was sent to wait at Port Authority for the migrants as one passenger is ‘very, very sick’ and needs medical attention.
Those on the bus have been tested for COVID and there have been ‘a number of positive tests,’ says Manuel Castro, who works in the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
Some migrants on the bus were separated from their families before the trip and weren’t aware they were headed to New York when they boarded the bus, including a man separated from his pregnant wife and children.
Manuel Castro, the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, greets migrants as they arrive in New York City
Castro said some of the passengers were eventually heading to other final destinations including Chicago and Florida
‘Clearly in Texas they are not being given the support that they need,’ said Castro, who added the migrants were ‘exhausted and tired’
The man’s wife was left in Texas, while their grandmother was sent in the opposite direction to San Antonio.
Castro said some of the passengers were eventually heading to other final destinations including Chicago and Florida and expressed concern at ‘how they get there.’
‘Clearly in Texas they are not being given the support that they need,’ said Castro, who added the migrants were ‘exhausted and tired.’
He also said those bussed out of Texas were given waivers to sign but not handed copies of them.
‘Using human beings as political pawns is disgusting,’ said Castro.
Last week, Texas governor Greg Abbott began to bus undocumented migrants to New York City in a symbolic show of protest for President Joe Biden ending a pandemic program that allows border agents to more easily thwart illegal border crossings.
New York has considered itself a sanctuary city for undocumented migrants and does not cooperate with immigration enforcement officers on deportation or detention matters.
Adams (center in white shirt) is seen on Sunday welcoming children who arrived in New York City on a bus from Texas. While 40 migrants were expected, only 14 disembarked in New York City due to fear over crime in the Big Apple
Over the weekend Abbott bused a 100-plus undocumented migrants from Texas to New York City so that they could use city support services
Asylum-seekers wait to be transported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents after crossing the Rio Grande river into the U.S. from Mexico, at Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., July 26. Both Texas Governor Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed orders allowing migrants the option of taking free buses to Washington, DC and New York City
On Tuesday, Adams called Abbott’s program ‘irresponsible’ for using human beings for a ‘political ploy.’
He also threatened to bus New Yorkers to Texas in order to knock on doors for Abbott’s upcoming gubernatorial opponent, Beto O’Rourke.
‘I already called all of my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their vote,’ Adams said. “I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old fashion doorknocking, because for the good of America we have to get him out of office.’
He had previously called Abbott’s program ‘horrific.’
“It’s unimaginable to come to this country and your first visit here and someone trying to throw you out as the Governor of Texas is doing,’ Adams said. ‘I think he’s irresponsible. I don’t think he’s accomplishing anything. There’s a reason the Statue of Liberty is there. We all came from somewhere… I don’t think he’s accomplishing anything except exposing the type of individual that he is.’
Adams’ press office said that they could not speak to the mayor’s political plans and stressed that the mayor said that this was something he was contemplating.