New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday that he has issued an executive order requiring charter buses transporting undocumented immigrants from the border to notify the city government 32 hours in advance of their arrival.
“We also require that these charter buses only arrive between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Monday through Friday,” Adams said during a joint virtual news conference held Wednesday with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Denver Mayor , Mike Johnston.
The purpose of the order is to ensure that New York City authorities have enough personnel to process immigrants.
Adams warned that failure to comply with this order will be considered a misdemeanor, with possible fines, lawsuits, and even confiscation of the vehicles.
The order limits the arrival of immigrants to the days and times announced by Adams and buses must drop off passengers at a specific location unless the city’s Office of Emergency Management indicates otherwise, Adams said during the conference. press.
Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, indicated that more than a month ago they implemented an ordinance similar to that of New York, while Denver is in the process of doing so.
Chicago increased penalties for bus companies that drop off large numbers of immigrants in the city without providing proper documentation or using a designated drop-off location.
Adams has said that the arrival of more than 150,000 immigrants since April 2022, of which 68,000 are in city care, has created a fiscal crisis that will lead to $12 billion being spent on services by mid-2025. these, which includes shelter, meals, education for children and other types of assistance, without receiving the help it has claimed from the federal government.
In the spring of 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott began sending buses with immigrants to cities with Democratic mayors, first to Washington DC and then to New York, to, according to the Republican, spread the immigration burden facing his state. by the policies of President Joe Biden’s Administration.
It has also sent immigrants to Boston (Massachusetts), Denver (Colorado), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Los Angeles (California).
Other immigrants have come to New York on their own from various states that the city is obliged to shelter if they request it, due to a court order issued 42 years ago, which Mayor Adams asked to be vacated citing the financial crisis.
Because there has been no response from the court – the case is still being debated – and the flow of thousands of immigrants into the city continues, authorities were forced to convert hotels into shelters and erect tents.
In addition, the time for singles to look for a place to live has been limited to 30 days and to 60 days for families with children, which has been widely criticized, particularly due to the impact it will have on minors, according to advocates. immigrants.
Adams has also cut budgets for city agencies to serve immigrants, to which today the executive order has been added.
The three mayors reiterated their criticism of the federal government for not providing them with the economic aid they have requested and for not addressing an immigration problem that they understand is national, and should not be resolved exclusively by the cities.
The announcement comes when a new migrant caravan with thousands of people is on its way to the country’s southern border, and while the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, is in Mexico to discuss precisely the problem of irregular migration with the president. Mexican, Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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