CV NEWS FEED // New York City’s migrant crisis continues to intensify as large groups now pour into the city via train, circumventing Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ attempts at immigration control.
Reports indicate that bus drivers in the New York Metropolitan Area are contributing to the city’s surging migrant population. The Hill explained that these “bus operators appear to have found a loophole” to the mayor’s recent initiative intended to curb the number of immigrants taking buses into the Big Apple.
“Under an executive order announced last week, Adams is requiring bus operators who are aware they are transporting migrants with fares paid for ‘by a third party’ to provide the city with notice at least 32 hours ahead of their anticipated arrival,” The Hill noted Monday:
However, New Jersey officials say bus drivers have found a way around the new restrictions by dropping off the migrants at Secaucus Junction Train Station — about a 15-minute ride from New York City.
Mayor Michael J. Gonnelli of Secaucus, NJ, said it “seems quite clear the bus operators are finding a way to thwart the requirements of the [New York City] Executive Order” by leaving migrants at Secaucus’s train station “and having them continue to their final destination.”
When Adams announced his order last Wednesday, he stated: “We cannot allow buses with people needing our help to arrive without warning at any hour of day and night.”
Days later, Adams seemed to suggest that he could not stop the en masse arrival of migrants to his city.
“I am blown away at some of the most intelligent New Yorkers in the city … who are not aware that we can’t stop the buses from coming in,” Adams said at a Tuesday City Hall briefing. “Who are not aware we do not have deportation status. Who are not aware that we cannot turn those who commit crimes over to [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)].”
“They’re just rules that everyday New Yorkers are not aware of,” the mayor said.
Later in the briefing, Adams appeared to deflect blame for his city’s immigration crisis onto the Biden administration.
“We were dealt a hand, and we played the hell out of that hand,” he said in part:
This is the hand we were dealt and everyday New Yorkers who are struggling to make ends meet, they’re not weeding through all the layers. All they know is we have a mayor, and we have a migrant crisis, and the mayor did not fix that migrant crisis.
We have to show them that the national government has dropped this into our lap.
The New York City mayor has been one of President Joe Biden’s most outspoken intraparty critics on immigration policy. Since last summer, Adams has consistently argued that the administration is not doing enough to address the country’s ongoing immigration surge.
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While running for office in 2021, Adams reassured voters that New York City would retain its “sanctuary city” status should he win the mayorship.
Two months ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the home of one of the top fundraisers for Adams’ successful 2021 campaign over alleged “influence peddling” with the Turkish government.
Read more on Mayor Adams and President Biden:
Adams Says Biden ‘Abandoned’ NYC
Adams Blasts Biden For Refusing to Meet With Him
