1000’s of refugees at the centre of a cruel match among Texas and New York: Liberation

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–The Republican governor of Texas, the primary gateway for migrants to the United States, rents buses to transport asylum seekers to Democratic strongholds. In New York, NGOs are mobilizing to welcome them.–

“The governor of Texas would like to toss New York into chaos and shame. But it can persist until eventually the November elections, or even over and above, it will not likely operate. The traces drawn by dint of as well shorter evenings, but as if repainted by the coloured halos of the pixel candy box in Times Square, exactly where Ilze Thielmann sips a cold espresso, affirms this bravado with a tone of apparent determination and placid fury: That “the most effective metropolis in the planet” and her plural mosaic of faces and accents stays a refuge open up to all, there is no doubt about this for her.

Forty several hours of crossing

At the head of a humanitarian firm for asylum seekers, this law firm, in her 50s, is at the forefront of working with the devastating consequences of a communications procedure introduced from the southern suggestion of the state. An initiative by the Texan Greg Abbott, who is fighting for his re-election to guide the next most populous US point out, even the one wherever most of the candidates for American exile are presented, the number of which has exploded in new months. The elected republican so intends to denounce the “hypocrisy” of the excellent progressive metropolises of the north-east, “Self-proclaimed sanctuaries” for foreigners but, according to him, really small charge tuition givers, when his Texas would have been from the elections …

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