New York City Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly said immigrant buses arriving in New York City from bordering states are not foretold, but the city of El Paso is reportedly saying otherwise.
According to FOX 5 in New York City of Texas Communications Director Laura Cruz Acosta said when the first bus moved from El Paso to the Big Apple on August 23, New York’s emergency management department, New York NGOs and the mayor I knew the room.
She told the station that El Paso had created a manifesto.
“We will provide manifestos to NGOs at our final destination,” said Cruz-Acosta. “So we will coordinate with the local NGOs at the destination, as well as with the mayor’s office and emergency responders at the destination.”
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However, according to Adams’ office, the city was not told how many buses there were or how many immigrants were on board.
“The state is not paying attention to us, so we don’t know when [the buses] Either they come in, or how many people come in,” Fabian Levy, the mayor’s spokesperson, said in an email to FOX 5.
The office said it never had an agreement to accept immigrants, but that it did notice the night before the bus arrives.
Cruz-Acosta and the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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In a statement emailed to Fox News on Thursday, she said the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been evacuated due to a “significant reduction in encounters” following the measures in the new homeland security policy for Venezuelans. He said he had “suspended” the sending of immigrants to New York.
“Two charters departed today for unsponsored immigrants remaining in local shelters and hotel shelter operations. Demobilize the Immigrant Welcome Center The city first began sponsoring charters on August 23 and has since chartered 294 buses to New York and Chicago. We will continue to support local NGOs by providing staffing and general support services, as we are doing throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,” she said.
Adams said Friday that the city has received a call from the mayor of El Paso and that the city of Texas will no longer send buses to New York.
A White House official told Fox News that the federal government is “ready to help the city of El Paso” in every way possible.
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El Paso has bussed more than 10,000 immigrants to New York and thousands more to Chicago since August.
CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus told Bloomberg News on Thursday: Only 155 Venezuelans encountered by border guardsdown from a daily average of 1,200 earlier in the month.
Reuters contributed to this report.