04/18/2024

First Texas bus of 50 mostly male illegal migrants arrives in NYC: Gov. Abbott says Big Apple is the ‘ideal destination’ and challenges liberal Mayor Adams to welcome them – as arrivals say city has ‘best opportunities’ in nation

  • Group of roughly 50 migrants was dropped off at Port Authority Bus TerminalĀ 
  • New York City now joins Washington D.C. as a drop-off location for migrants
  • Texas Governor Greg Abbott said New York is an ‘ideal’ destination for migrants
  • They ‘can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about’ Abbott added
  • Last week, Mayor Adams declared a city emergency because of the influx
  • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has called in the National Guard to assistĀ 
  • The Biden administration has accused Republican states of using migrants as ‘political ploy’