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Busing to Sanctuary Cities Will Continue Until the Border Improves
Sanctuary cities like NYC and Chicago are crying foul over busloads of newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers sent on from Texas.
New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams has abandoned, for now, a plan to house newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers in public school gymnasiums throughout the city. After an outcry from concerned parents, City Hall relented, but not before warning of more disruptions to come.
“As we’ve been saying for months, we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, having opened approximately 150 emergency sites, including eight large-scale humanitarian relief centers, to serve more than 65,000 asylum seekers,” responded city officials in a statement. “We received more than 4,200 asylum seekers last week alone and continue to receive hundreds of asylum seekers every day.”
“We are opening emergency shelters and respite centers daily, but we are out of space,” warned City Hall. “As the mayor has said, nothing is off the table as we work to fill our moral mandate, but we should all expect this crisis to affect every city service. We will continue to communicate with local elected officials as we open more emergency sites.”
New York City has been struggling to maintain its status as a sanctuary city in the face of an unrelenting flow of…