The deal — which sees the city embrace up to 200 new arrivals a day — also came as Adams repeatedly blamed the continued influx of immigrants for destroying the city’s housing system, which he said Wednesday is “nearing the limit.” his point”. Officials in El Paso, Texas, began sending migrants to New York on Aug. 23 as they try to deal with a flood of asylum seekers that a local poll said created “a scene you would see in a third-world country. “ As of Wednesday, the El Paso Office of Emergency Management had paid for 33 charter buses to travel here, a spokesman for the Texas city said. On Thursday, The Post saw two buses from El Paso pull up outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan and drop off dozens of immigrants. El Paso Mayor Oscar Lesser said at a public meeting this week that he spoke to Adams about his decision to send a team of senior advisers to Texas last week on what City Hall called “a fact-finding mission to … get the real answers”. You’re not from Texas.” Mayor Eric Adams continues to open New York to immigrants even amid limited resources. Robert Miller for the NY PostThe deal includes 200 new arrivals a day. Robert Miller for the NY PostEl Paso Office of Emergency Management paid for 33 chartered buses to drop off migrants in New York. Robert Miller for the NY Post Leeser said they discussed the El Paso relocation program and that he told Adams that most of the immigrants sent to New York were from Venezuela. “We’re very grateful to Mayor Adams from New York who really stepped in to help us and, you know, he told me when I talked to him that there’s no community in New York from Venezuela.” Leeser said at an El Paso City Council work session Monday. “But he’s going to welcome them into his community and then work with them to get them into a community where there’s, there’s peers, so they can continue to be there and that’s really important to him.” Leeser said the influx of immigrants into El Paso was “very manageable” when “we had two hundred, three hundred a day.” “Now, we have 1,400 a day. It’s easy math: multiply 1,400 by 30 and that’s 42,000 in a month. So this is a very large number and we need help,” he said. Leeser also said that “the mayor of New York has been very proactive with us and we’ve been able to talk to the mayor of New York.”
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“He actually sent four people to El Paso to make sure they understood the process,” Leeser added. The Adams administration first discovered busloads of immigrants were arriving from El Paso late last month, the website El Paso Matters reported at the time. In April, Abbott began sending immigrants to Washington, DC, to protest President Biden’s “irresponsible open border policies” and their impact on border communities in the Lone Star State. Immigrants are reaching other major cities now. Robert Miller for the NY Post Abbott expanded the program to New York in early August, and on August 31 he announced that the first bus from Texas had arrived in Chicago. All three cities are run by Democratic mayors. Meanwhile, Adams has repeatedly condemned Abbott in highly personal terms, calling him a coward, unpatriotic and “a global disgrace”. “He’s an anti-American governor who really goes against everything we stand for,” Adams said at a news conference last month. In a response Friday, Adams spokesman Fabien Levy denied the city had agreed to accept the migrants to be sent from El Paso. “This is a deliberate misunderstanding of Mayor Leeser’s comments,” said spokesman Fabien Levy. “As anyone listening to the recording can hear, that’s not what the mayor of El Paso said, and Mayor Adams certainly didn’t offer to accept additional buses, let alone ever reveal it.” Levy added: “The truth is clear, we are dealing with an unprecedented crisis that has pushed our city system close to breaking point.” There is talk that Mayor Adams could do more for incoming immigrants. Robert Miller for the NY Post But City Hall also released a statement from Leeser that said: “We greatly appreciate the assistance and cooperation of Mayor Adams, his team and the people of New York as we deal with this evolving and changing situation. “ “We are also working with our federal counterparts and [nongovernmental organizations] as we work to treat all individuals humanely while following the laws of the United States,” the statement added. Leeser, however, did not return a request for comment about Adams’ response to his statements at the council meeting. Meanwhile, a charity worker who welcomed the migrants who arrived in the city from El Paso on Thursday blamed the Adams administration for not doing enough. “We’re getting absolutely no help from the city,” said Power Malu, executive director of the nonprofit Artists Athletes Activists Inc. “Whether it’s the food we feed them, whether it’s the clothes we give them, getting people to the places they need to go – everything we do comes out of our own pocket.” City Hall did not respond to a request for comment on those remarks.
