New York City officers greeted migrants exiting a bus in downtown Manhattan on Sunday, 1 of lots of despatched from Texas.

The officers shook hands with each of the migrants just before offering them blankets and main them absent from Port Authority in downtown. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent much more than a dozen busses to Washington D.C. and New York Metropolis in a bid to make the effective metropolitan areas feel the outcomes of the ongoing border crisis.

Sunday's bus of at least 44 migrants was despatched by the mayor of El Paso, Oscar Leeser.

New York officials have condemned the busses, with Mayor Eric Adams's administration contacting it "shameful" final 7 days.

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New York Town Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs Manuel Castro welcomed extra than 80 migrants Tuesday, and accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of stoking "anti-immigrant and anti-Latino hatred" by sending buses from the southern border. (WHD News Channel)

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Manuel Castro, commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, was there to fantastic migrants from four busses that arrived previous week.

"As in past times, our precedence is to make sure that the asylum seekers are perfectly. We have meals h2o professional medical expert services inside the port authority," Castro told reporters.

"He’s weaponizing asylum seekers," Castro extra of Abbott. "It is shameful, and it is our ethical obligation to condemn the use of human beings for political purposes."

Adams himself has also blasted Abbott for the bussing program, which the Texas governor argues is vital due to overflow at border towns.

"I currently referred to as all my buddies in Texas and instructed them how to cast their votes," Adams mentioned in the course of a push conference last 7 days. "And I am deeply considering using a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking mainly because we have to, for the good of America, we have to get him out of office."

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Abbott argues that NYC, a proud sanctuary metropolis, should be able of housing the border-crossers.

"In addition to Washington, D.C., New York Metropolis is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can get the abundance of town services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about inside the sanctuary metropolis," Abbott stated in August.

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