New York Mayor Eric Adams is calling for New Jersey to STOP the flow of migrant buses from Texas after Governor Abbott sent them to the Garden State so they could simply take the train to New York
New York Mayor Eric Adams has issued a plea to New Jersey to stem the flow of migrant buses from Texas after Governor Abbott sent them to the Garden State before reaching their final destination: the Big Apple.
During his weekly news conference at City Hall, Adams urged surrounding municipalities to continue complying with executive orders issued last week to control the flow of migrants into the city.
He called the governor of Texas someone who has “a completely reckless disregard for using people as pawns” and spoke about his recent initiative to provide free transportation into the city to the expats entering his state from Mexico.
“We are dealing with an individual who just wants to disrupt,” said Adams, whose lead attorney Lisa Zornberg confirmed that “to date, not a single migrant bus from Texas has complied with Adams' order.”
Zornberg called Abbott's migrant transportation program “insane” and said the bus companies that failed to comply with the city's executive order are engaging in what she described as “a bad faith scheme” that takes advantage of vulnerable people.
New York Mayor Eric Adams, speaking at his weekly news conference at City Hall on Tuesday, urged neighboring municipalities to continue complying with the same executive orders to limit the flow of migrants into the Big Apple that he announced last week
Asylum seekers were first seen arriving in New Jersey before traveling to New York
Migrants arriving in the Garden State from Texas wait for another bus that will take them to New York City
Under the executive order, similar to the one used in Chicago, Adams requires charter buses transporting migrants to New York City to indicate the time and locations that buses can arrive and to notify local officials up to 32 hours in advance .
The order also requires bus companies to keep track of migrants, those with families and children and the number of new arrivals needing shelter at one of the city's shelters.
Last Wednesday, Four buses filled with asylum-seeking families came from Texas, but were diverted to Philadelphia due to bad weather before arriving at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Over the holiday weekend, more buses carrying migrants who had recently crossed the border headed to New York but were diverted to New Jersey as many bus companies reportedly failed to follow the mayor's orders.
At Tuesday's news conference, Adams said he would speak with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy about the growing crisis.
According to city officials, more than 161,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022, including 68,000 in city-run shelters.
Last week, Adams' office said more than 7,000 asylum seekers had arrived in the city in the past two weeks. CBS News reported.
The mayor called Abbott's actions intentional, causing chaos and straining the city's budget and shelter system in his city and others.
Mayor Adams' Deputy Mayor for Communications, Fabien Levy, borrowed a line from the 2008 Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” saying, “Some men are non-negotiable, some men just want to see the world to burn. Greg Abbott is that guy. There's no reasoning with him, no negotiating with him, he just wants to watch this country burn.”
Abbott has been outspoken about President Biden's border policies, which he strongly opposes, and since April 2022 has begun transporting migrants entering his state to other states and Democratic-run cities.
As he has said before, “Texans cannot continue to bear the burdens imposed by open border advocates in other parts of the country.”
In a recent social media post, he boasted that his state has transported “over 95,000 migrants to sanctuary cities.”
“Reserve towns like NYC and Chicago have seen just a fraction of what overwhelmed Texas border towns face on a daily basis,” he wrote.
“We will continue our transportation mission until Biden changes course on his open border policy.”
Mayor Adams' Deputy Mayor for Communications, Fabien Levy, borrowed a line from the 2008 Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” saying, “Some men cannot be reasoned with or negotiated with, some men just want the watching the world burn. ,' the Gothamist reported.
“Greg Abbott is that guy. There is no negotiating with him, there is no bargaining with him, he just wants to see this country burn.”
More and more asylum seekers stand outside in the cold picking up blankets in downtown New York City
According to Guatemala's Directorate General of Migration, the United States will deport 55,000 Guatemalans in 2023.
Guatemalan migrants (pictured) are seen at the air base in Guatemala on Wednesday after being deported from the United States. It is the first flight of deportees in the country in 2024
Adams pointed out that the fact that it was a 'sanctuary city'nothing to do with his administration's efforts to manage the flow of migrant buses from out of state.
The mayor's lead attorney said it was “high time for the federal government to step in with a national decompression strategy,” according to the news source.