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Texas bused nearly 120,000 migrants from the border to New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago starting in 2022 in an effort to draw attention to the massive problems at ...
A state court judge ruled that New York City cannot block Texas from sending buses with migrants, who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, to the Big Apple. Judge Mary Rosado said in a ruling on ...
A bus carrying migrants arrives in New York City on Sep, 4, 2022. Abbott started busing in 2022 as part of Operation Lone Star, an $11 billion program designed to address the migrant surge in Texas.
The Texas free busing does not constitute the majority of recent migrants, but it does account for many of the highest-need cases. [2] The crisis has strained the city shelter system, [3] and sparked controversy around temporary new shelters, [4] as Mayor Eric Adams has sought to modify the 1981 consent decree for Callahan v. Carey.
The state reported sending 119,200 migrants to cities outside of Texas, [4] contributing to the New York City migrant housing crisis and other crises in cities such as Chicago, Denver, and Washington, D.C. [16] [19] Officials in these cities have responded to the drop-off of migrants by deploying emergency measures and calling states of ...
Dozens of migrants continue to arrive in Washington D.C. and New York City by bus, being shipped from Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott as a protest to what he has called President Joe Biden’s ...
Many of those immigrants settled in Texas, [10] bringing the foreign-born population of Texas to almost 17% by 2010. [ 11 ] As of 2022, Texas had a foreign-born population of 5,169,126 people, 63.5% of whom are of Latino origin [ 3 ] The state has the second-largest population of immigrants in the United States and the second-highest number of ...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has given law enforcement sweeping new powers to arrest and deport migrants who illegally enter the state.. Critics say the new law, which punishes repeat offenders with ...