Wednesday, October 23, 2024

NYC Is Paying for Migrants to Leave, TX Is Top Destination

New York has issued 4,507 one-way tickets to Texas through a voluntary program that transfers asylum seekers out of the city, according to Mayor Eric Adams' office. That's almost 10% of the 47,000 trips that New York has paid for starting in 2022 amid an influx of more than 200,000 migrants that strained public services.

Posted by lamplighter at 03:46 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink

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... The top destinations for migrants asking to leave the Big Apple also include Illinois, Florida and Colorado, as well as other parts of New York. Most travel on planes.

"These are not chartered buses," said Fabien Levy, New York's deputy mayor for communications, distinguishing the city's program from Texas Governor Greg Abbott's practice of sending busloads of migrants out of his state.

"These are individual tickets we are purchasing after sitting down with migrants and hearing what they want to do."

Abbott's office didn't respond to a request for comment. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-23 03:47 PM

Sweet.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-23 06:12 PM

@#2

Apparently, unlike what Gov Abbott and Gov DeSantis did to these people (herding them into chartered buses after lying to them about what was happening), NYC is asking them where they want to go and put them on public transportation (planes!) to that place.

So, now Floridians can boast about more people wanted to move to their state

:)


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-23 07:24 PM

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