New York mayor Eric Adams says the city is struggling to house the 11,000 migrants Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent to the city since May.
New York City is considering using cruise ships to house the growing number of illegal border crosser arriving from Texas.Adams says he is looking for legal options to block the bus transfers from the Texas-Mexico border.
On Sunday, volunteers with the "League of United Latino American Citizens" spent the day in Eagle Pass trying to educate the migrants on their rights before they catch a bus out of state.Asylum seekers about to board bus in Eagle Pass, Texas.He believes they are being used as political pawns. "It's a humanitarian crisis, and we need to treat them like human beings. Here's a father with a baby in his arms, and he's just trying to get to Portland, Oregon," said Garcia.Garcia says part of the reason LULAC was in Eagle Pass Sunday was to inform migrants of their civil rights and protections against boarding buses under false and misleading inducements of non-existent jobs and help in distant locations.Abbott has disputed those claims.
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