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
    814·
    11 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·
      11 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·
      11 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.”