City officials are asking the Biden administration for federal relief while firing back at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for what some have described as a dangerous political stunt.
The mayor spoke to the media outside of the busy bus terminal Sunday morning, adding that some of the families on the bus wanted to go to another city. But when they tried to explain, they were given no choice, the mayor asserted.
Abbott involved New York as a means of trying to force President Joe Biden’s hand on enacting stricter border security measures. Abbott claimed a bus that arrived in New York on Friday with 54 immigrant passengers was the first to be sent by Texas, but New York City officials said they were skeptical, pointing to a considerably larger number of people who have arrived in the city in recent months, though not all by bus.
“Our budgets are impacted because no one plans for [4,000] or [5,000] or 6,000 or even more people to arrive, so they need a shelter,” Castro said in an interview with Gothamist. “And so of course, that's the assistance we are seeking the federal government to step in.”
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