The executive order mandates migrant charter buses must announce their arrival 32 hours in advance and can only drop off migrants between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.

The executive order mandates migrant charter buses must announce their arrival 32 hours in advance and can only drop off migrants between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order Wednesday to restrict the flow of migrant charter buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to New York City.

Adams said the order mandates 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, he said. The order specifically applies to buses contracted by the state of Texas — whose governor Adams routinely blames for sending asylum seekers into the five boroughs.

The announcement came during a joint briefing with the mayors of Chicago and Denver. The three cities have formed a coalition to press the White House and federal government for more migrant aid as each metropolis grapples with the economic and governmental burden of housing, feeding and educating tens of thousands of migrants.

  • APassenger@lemmy.world
    923·
    10 months ago

    If life was shit where I came from, I made it in, and I was told I could go to NYC or stay in south Texas, I’d get on the bus.

    Have you been near the border? There’s not a lot of opportunity right there.

    Edit: Since this seems to be attracting those who disagree. This is not human trafficking.

    And my point about an immigrant choosing not to work in a place where they can be replaced immediately… The point stands.

    If your complaint is with immigration generally, then that’s a different thing.

    The immigrants aren’t mentally slow. They just want better and were willing to risk it. An intelligent person would take the free ride to improved opportunity. Even more true if family was there and this saves cash.

    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
      184·
      10 months ago

      Cool, now imagine you made it over and have family in Houston, but some asshole forces you on a bus to NYC where the COL is insanely high and you don’t know anyone.

      • APassenger@lemmy.world
        815·
        10 months ago

        They aren’t forced on the bus. That is illegal. This is choosing.

        Esit: from the article & note the states in the last paragraph.

        While both Adams and Johnson have referred to Abbott’s transporting of migrants as “cruel,” New York City has also paid to transport asylum seekers to destinations outside the city. Between March and November, the city said it spent about $4.6 million to purchase more than 19,300 plane tickets for migrants seeking travel to other cities.

        In both Texas and New York, local governments say the migrants are traveling willingly.

        • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          10 months ago

          Migrants are often lied to to get them onto these buses. They’re willing because they’re under false impression of where they’re going.

        • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
          4·
          10 months ago

          I dunno if I’d take the word of either one of these locales on whether the migrants are willingly boarding these transports. This could very well be the “board this bus or we’re going to throw you in a cage and forget about you” type of “willingly.”

    • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      It says in that article the group that got sent to Martha’s vineyard are making claims of human trafficking. I find it hard to believe the people put on these buses aren’t coerced or lied to. I think there are many reasons people would want to move to NYC instead of bordertown Texas but I don’t see Texan politicians caring to filter out ones who do and don’t want to go and simply rounding a group up and getting them on a bus.