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| 2024-10-29 | |||
New York City is buying tickets for thousands of migrants to travel to Texas via bus or plane, from where many of them originally traveled to the sanctuary city in the first place, amid an ongoing battle between officials over how to handle the migrant crisis. New York City, which has been overwhelmed by more than 200,000 migrant arrivals since 2022, has been providing settlement options to migrants since that time. Last year, it opened a reticketing center to offer one-way plane tickets to migrants. Fox News confirms that 4,500 migrants have been sent to Texas using bus or plane tickets bought by the city. The figure was first reported by Bloomberg News.
In total, they have issued more than 4,700 tickets and the majority, roughly 4,500, have gone to Texas. It was not clear how many of those migrants had come from buses sent to NYC from Texas. Between February and July there were 2,297 tickets purchased to Texas, with the top three cities being Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Fox is told that spending through to July 2024 on reticketing has been $13.8 million. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began bussing migrants to New York City and other sanctuary cities in 2022 in what he said was an effort to relieve pressure on the overwhelmed border communities. He chose sanctuary cities – cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement – because he said they encouraged the crisis. An NYC spokesperson told Fox that the influx was exacerbated by Abbott and that resources have been exhausted in part due to his efforts. When asked how the program works, the mayor’s office said, "Whenever they have a desire where they want to go back to somewhere else, we buy their tickets. It is mostly planes, but we also buy bus tickets." Abbott’s office slammed the handling of the crisis by the Biden administration and accused Adams of hypocrisy. "Border Czar Kamala Harris and the federal government continues to refuse to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do their jobs to secure the border, allowing record-high levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and weapons to surge into our state and country," spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris told Fox News in a statement. "Hypocritical Mayor Adams said busing migrants is ‘morally bankrupt,’ while Harris called transporting migrants ‘political theater’ and they’re doing the same thing themselves. Until Border Czar Harris steps up and does her job to secure the border, Texas will continue utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to the Biden-Harris border crisis," he said. New York City has struggled with the influx of migrants, which has put a strain on social services and led to scenes of migrants lining up outside the Roosevelt Hotel. Related: New York City: 2024-10-27 Anti-Israel US campus groups radicalize, with no one to stop them, experts warn New York City: 2024-10-24 Teen arrested for plotting terror attack on Phoenix Pride parade New York City: 2024-10-23 US charges in absentia IRGC official, 3 others in plot to assassinate dissident journalist Related: Eric Adams 10/09/2024 Hochul pushing staff changes at 'Titanic' City Hall as she avoids ousting Adams before Nov. 5 election: Wright resigns, Bahi charged Eric Adams 10/08/2024 Phil Banks, deputy mayor and close Eric Adams pal, resigns, as does confidante Winnie Greco, while fed informing staffer was fired Eric Adams 09/29/2024 Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC | |||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 Hiker dies in Texas national park amid extreme temperatures |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-10-29 23:19 |
| #7 They have a longer walk then |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-10-29 20:05 |
| #6 Darth... it turns out that the country with the highest percentage of their population in America as illegals is Nicaragua. Over %6.3 of their population has entered since Biden took over. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2024-10-29 13:18 |
| #5 Escort them straight to a plane to Peru. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-10-29 13:14 |
| #4 ^^ Would be way cheaper in the long run. Also I hope that the NY authorities checked all these travellers for infectious diseases per TSA requirements. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-10-29 10:15 |
| #3 Why not just buy them tickets to their home countries? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-10-29 10:00 |
| #2 Taxpayer footin' the follies as usual. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-10-29 09:59 |
| #1 Not so Sanctuary-y, then? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-10-29 09:14 |