“Before, it was one or two a day, three days a week. Now it’s six or seven a day and almost every day, sometimes even at night,” a humanitarian from Team TLC NYC who works at the Port Authority bus terminal told the Post. At least seven buses full of asylum seekers arrived at the Manhattan bus depot on Friday — and “a few days ago,” there were eight buses in a single day, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday. It’s unclear where all of Friday’s buses in Texas came from, but at least three of them came from El Paso, a border city adjacent to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. El Paso is one of the cities in Texas that has been inundated with immigrants who cross into the U.S. illegally and then seek asylum, allowing them to stay here legally until their cases go through the courts. At least seven buses carrying migrants arrived at the Port Authority on Friday. James MesserschmidtTexas Governor Abbott has moved immigrants from Texas to the Big Apple.James Messerschmidt El Paso officials and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are moving thousands of immigrants to Democratic cities like New York to protest Democratic President Joe Biden’s disastrously lax border policies.
Immigration crisis moves north: See what’s happening across the country as border states bus migrants into US
A spokesman for Abbott’s office could not confirm how many buses enter the Big Apple each day, but said he has sent more than 2,500 immigrants on 45 buses here so far — and more are expected. Mayor Adams said some shelters have reached a “tipping point” due to the influx. James Messerschmidt Shortly after noon Friday, about two dozen immigrant families, including couples and children, who entered the Port Authority were loaded onto a waiting MTA bus bound for an unknown destination. The migrants were trapped at barricades and city workers at the scene did not allow reporters to speak to them. Additional reporting by Bernadette Hogan
