The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, announced this Friday the shipment to New York of the first bus with migrants who had crossed the border, thus adding this city to his "unprecedented" initiative to transfer asylum seekers to Washington DC to denounce the alleged inaction of the Government of Joe Biden.
“In addition to Washington DC, New York is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about in the sanctuary city.
I hope he keeps his promise to welcome all migrants with open arms so our overwhelmed and overwhelmed border cities can find relief,” the Republican governor explained in a statement.
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Abbott said the first bus carrying migrants (those volunteering to ride) to the Port Authority bus terminal on Friday morning, adding that it has already flown thousands of asylum seekers to Washington DC, in a initiative to which Arizona, governed by Republicans, has also joined.
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The mayor of New York said on July 19 that the governors of Texas and Arizona were busing thousands of asylum seekers to New York City, which has welcoming rights laws that require the city to serve those migrants.
Both states denied this, saying they were only sending people by bus to Washington DC However, an investigation by NBC News in New York indicated that hundreds of migrants have arrived in the city in recent weeks, according to federal government documents. , which directs them to local charities that are not prepared to receive them.
Many migrants accept the transfer from the border to the East Coast to get closer to their families, and from Washington they travel on their own to other cities, mainly in New York and Florida, according to what charities reported to Noticias Telemundo.
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The Department of Defense denied the request of the mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, for the National Guard to help her in the face of the arrival of migrants sent from the border, according to NBC News reported this Friday.
The Pentagon said in a letter that the city has enough funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) given to non-profit organizations in the capital to provide immigrants with shelter and other services.
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"After careful consideration, the department has concluded that it cannot meet your request," wrote Christopher Rodriguez, director of the capital's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
"I understand that a non-governmental organization, SAMU First Response, has received a federal grant through FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program for this mission," he added, to finance "humanitarian aid from the Government and social organizations with in order to provide shelter and supportive services to families and individuals.”
Many families sent from the border to Washington DC and New York end up sleeping on the streets due to lack of resources.
This is the case of Crisman Urbaez, from Venezuela, who arrived at a center in New York that did not accept families and ended up sleeping on the street for three days before finding a shelter, according to NBC New York.
“We were not going to separate.
We got back on the streets and thank God we met a man who helped us get to [a shelter] in the Bronx,” Urbaez said.
Catholic Charities also reported that it has received dozens of hearing notices from immigration courts warning their recipients that they may be deported immediately if they don't respond, but don't know where the recipients are.