New York Mayor Eric Adams instituted restrictions on when buses transporting migrants can arrive in the city, Gothamist reports, in an effort to thwart Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott from dumping dozens of people on the streets in the middle of the night to “own the libs.”
After his communications head called Abbott’s manipulation of migrants “inhumane” when a plane of migrants was diverted from New York to Philadelphia because of weather, Adams announced that buses carrying migrants can only drop off their passengers during weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and noon–and the buses must give 32-hours before discharging passengers at a single location in Manhatten.
“We can not allow buses with people needing our help to arrive without warning at any hour of day and night,” Adams said. “This not only prevents us from providing assistance in an orderly way, it puts those who have already suffered so much in danger.”