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Numerous buses with migrants are currently arriving in New York. The mayor of the city, Eric Adams, has declared a state of emergency. This allows for the provision of financial resources.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency due to the arrival of buses carrying migrants from the Texas border into the city. “We are now in a situation where more people are arriving in New York than we can immediately accommodate, including families with babies and young children,” Adams said on Friday.
The city will have to raise $ 1 billion for this year, the mayor said, asking for help from New York State and the US government in Washington. Declaring a state of emergency allows federal funds to be diverted.
In the spring, Republican governors of Texas and Arizona began transporting migrants by bus from border areas to Washington, New York and Chicago, among other places, in order to shift responsibility to democratically run large cities. A state of emergency was declared a few weeks ago in Washington. More than 17,000 migrants from South and Central America are already in New York, Mayor Adams said.
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