Buses chartered from Texas and Arizona are taking asylum-seekers to Washington, D.C., and now New York. Both Arizona and Florida are using the same tactics as Governor Abbott. And the mayors of New York and DC are not happy about the influx.
NY mayor’s office blasts Abbott for bussing migrants to the city https://t.co/QOjIzI74eE pic.twitter.com/annWx1Sd6M
— The Hill (@thehill) August 7, 2022
Since April, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, has been busing newly arrived asylum-seekers to immigrant-friendly Democratic cities. Crime in DC is already at a record high and some of the newly arrived are adding to the mix. Human traffickers and drug gangs are taking advantage of the porous border situation.
The governor says that the Biden administration’s open border policies are overwhelming Texas’s social services. And the increasing numbers of migrants is already at record highs.
Asylum-seekers find sanctuary
Abbott’s press office said the bus that arrived in Manhattan at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square early Friday was “the first group of migrants bused to New York City from Texas.”
