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Another busload of border-crossers from Texas arrived in the Big
Apple on Sunday morning — as a top city official ripped the Lone
Star State governor’s policy and a former New York gov called it
“brilliant.”
Thirty-one mask-wearing, young-adult migrants got off a white
bus about 7 a.m. at Manhattan’s Port Authority Bus Terminal amid
the ongoing public war of words between GOP Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott and Dem Mayor Eric Adams’ administration about the bussed
border-crossers.
City Hall’s head of Immigrant Affairs, Manuel Castro, on Sunday
said the latest “bus full of asylum seekers coming from Texas”
was part of a shameful “political ploy.
“We have serious issues about the way Gov. Abbott is treating
asylum-seekers, especially because this is supposed to be a
voluntary bus ride, and it appears that it’s not,” Castro told
reporters at the Manhattan facility.
The commissioner was apparently referencing reports about sick
and unfed migrants, as well as those who were forced to come
directly to New York City without stopping despite asking to get
off the bus in Tennessee.
“We’re calling into question what Gov. Abbott is doing. This is
a political ploy,” Castro said.
“We’ll talk to individuals, we’ll find out more,” he said. “In
previous buses, people were sick, hungry, they had been through
a lot. … There have been a lot of issues on the way here. As you
may have heard, one individual, or many individuals, wanted to
get off earlier, but the bus [driver] was refusing to.”
The influx of migrants — many of whom are reportedly pursuing
political asylum in the US — to the five boroughs has left city
officials scrambling to provide shelter for the homeless
newcomers, which is required by law.
But ex-New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, said he is
impressed by Abbott’s political maneuvering, explaining that it
put Adams in a bind.
“The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has come up with … one of
the most brilliant political strategies I’ve heard in a long
time,” Paterson said during an appearance on WABC 770’s “Cats
Roundtable” that aired Sunday.
“I’m a Democrat. And there are a lot of things I don’t like
about what he is doing. However, sometimes you have to tip your
cap to your opponent.
“It has really paid dividends to him politically,” Paterson said
of Abbott. “In addition, it has put New York’s Mayor Eric Adams
in the position where he can’t say he won’t accept the
immigrants.
“That would be going against what has been the policy most
Democrats have on immigration in the first place. And if [Adams]
sends the immigrants back to Texas, he is … going against his
own attempt to get the federal government to help pay for the
fact that they are here.”
A City Hall rep said Sunday’s bussed-in migrants are originally
from Venezuela and Colombia. The city joined volunteers in
providing them with food, water and clothing, as well as legal
and medical assistance, the representative said.
Many of the migrants will eventually head to final destinations
in New Jersey, North Carolina, Chicago and Kentucky, with
volunteers helping to get them there, the rep said.
Abbott’s press office did not respond to a request for comment.
aterson said that while the situation puts Adams in a bind, he
doesn’t think it has harmed him politically.
“I don’t think Adams is being hurt in this process at all,” the
former governor told host John Catsimatidis. “But I think
nationally, it’s an amazing way to focus people on the whole
immigration process.”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/more-migrants-arrive-in-nyc-david-
paterson-calls-it-brilliant/
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