Chicago, Texas Among Top Destinations of Migrants Leaving New York
Texas Governor Greg Abbott's tactic of busing migrants to New York may be backfiring as many of these migrants are heading back to the state while others go to Chicago and Florida, the latter also being infamous for busing migrants as a political stunt.
Newsweek has gotten its hands on data from New York City Hall, and it showed that tens of thousands of migrants have left New York City as they try and seek opportunities in other states. These include at least 3,000 migrants who went to the states that likely sent them to New York, which are Texas and Florida.
The data showed that Illinois is the most popular destination for these migrants, with the second being elsewhere in New York State. Texas ranks third, while Florida stands in fourth place for migrants leaving New York City. For now, over 19,000 migrants have taken New York City Mayor Eric Adams up on his offer to leave the city, though so far, this only takes up 13% of the migrants in the city.
The New York City government has already spent over $4.6 million from March 2022 and November 2023 to book one-way plane tickets to relocate the migrants, with 19,366 tickets being issued across the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the New York City Emergency Management and the Department of Homeland Security.
"Here, the city will redouble efforts to purchase tickets for migrants to help them take the next steps in their journeys, and it helps us triage operations at The Roosevelt for new arrivals," City Hall spokesperson Kayla Mamelak told Newsweek.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams Begins Measures Vs. Texas Migrant Busing Stunts
Meanwhile, Eric Adams has now also started pushing back against all the buses that Texas Governor Greg Abbott is sending to New York City. In a new order designed to restrict the flow of migrant charter buses sent specifically from Texas, Adams mandated that "any buses carrying migrants arrive in the city only between 8:30 a.m. and noon on weekdays. The buses' arrival must also be announced 32 hours in advance."
According to Politico, Adams announced this after a joint briefing with the mayors of Chicago and Denver. These three Democratic cities have been pressing the White House and federal government for more migrant aid as Republican states send more and more migrants, with each city struggling with the "economic and governmental burden of housing, feeding and educating tens of thousands of migrants."
Texas Migrant Buses Now Dropping Them Off in New Jersey as New York Bus Restrictions Take Effect
Meanwhile, as the edict takes effect, Texas migrant buses are now forced to drop off the migrants not in New York City but in train stations in New Jersey as an effort to bypass Eric Adams's anti-busing measures.
USA Today reported that four buses transporting migrants destined for New York City did not arrive at their planned destination but instead dropped them off at the train station at Secaucus Junction. This was confirmed by Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli, who added that the migrants are told to continue the trip to New York by train instead.
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Written by: Rick Martin
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