For the first time since the migration crisis began in early 2022, New York Mayor Eric Adams has sought an executive order to regulate the arrival of buses from the border to limit the influx of migrants as much as possible. The councilor is frustrated that at least 122,000 people have arrived in the city in less than two years and there are no means or resources to manage their reception.

After repeated requests for federal aid to cover a portion of room and board costs, Adams announced that charter buses carrying immigrants would have to give 32 hours notice before arriving in one of the Big Apple's five boroughs. Buses have been chartered by Republican governors of border states — notably Greg Abbott of Texas — as a measure of pressure on Democratic-governed states and cities like New York.

The operation requires buses to arrive between 8:30 a.m. and 12 a.m. Monday through Friday, and would only allow passengers to drop off at one location, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan, unless the city's Department of Emergency Management is in place. Says otherwise. Adams noted that failure to comply with the order will result in fines and impoundment of vehicles that violate the rules.

The new regulations, issued by executive order, come at a time when the city expects a new wave of immigrants in the coming weeks, the councilman explained at a press conference. The move coincides with a significant increase at the border with Mexico, where authorities are overwhelmed by the daily influx of thousands of migrants from the most remote corners of the planet. Through a recent tour of Mexico and Latin America, Adams himself tried to manage the source of the immigrants.

“We cannot allow buses with people in need of our assistance to arrive unannounced at all hours of the day and night,” Adams explained. “This not only prevents the delivery of aid in an orderly manner, but also endangers the already most vulnerable,” he added, pointing to the thousands of migrants who are practically sleeping in the open due to the reception period limit. Although accommodation facilities such as municipal shelters, camps or old factories, schools or gymnasiums have continued to be established for them. As of earlier this week, 143,000 people were staying in the city's shelters.

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“To be clear, this is not about preventing the arrival of people, but about guaranteeing the safety of migrants and ensuring that they arrive in a coordinated and orderly manner,” he stressed. In the past month, the city recorded more than 14,700 new arrivals, the mayor's office said in a statement. Last week alone, 14 buses arrived in the five boroughs overnight, Adams said, the highest number ever recorded by the city's center coordinating the arrival of asylum seekers.

The mayor has accused Governor Abbott of using immigrants as “political pawns,” saying several weeks ago that “Republicans promised to send 25,000 immigrants to New York City alone.”

Adams said the city of Chicago has already taken steps to get the buses back on track. Its mayor, fellow Democrat Brandon Johnson, today asked for federal help to solve the crisis. “The country is now in danger,” he said. Denver Councilman Mike Johnston joined two of his co-religionists in a video conference Wednesday in which they called back to Washington. Adams noted that Joe Biden's administration should issue a federal emergency declaration and launch a “national resettlement strategy” in response to the current influx of immigrants. “The federal government must take responsibility and lead this humanitarian crisis, not let cities and towns handle it.” The costs of caring for immigrants have resulted in many cuts to municipal budgets.

Under the 1980s law, New York is theoretically obligated to provide a bed to anyone who needs one, despite Mayor Adams at least twice trying to repeal it amid criticism from NGOs and activist groups. It imposes a limit of 60 days in shelters – or set up hotels – for migrant families with minors, and 30 days for men traveling alone. It has also tried other methods of easing the unbearable migrant pressure: distributing migrants to other cities in New York state – those unwilling to take them – or sending them across, on free buses, to the Canadian border. A call to a neighboring country. None of the measures work because of the situation at the border: As more arrivals are recorded, tens of thousands of new arrivals are more likely to be transported to other cities or states, sometimes unknowingly or unwillingly. of the country.

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