Refugee Crisis in New York: Babies Abandoned on the Streets due to Loophole in Migrant Policy

Abandoned on the street

“Will destroy New York”: Babies are playthings of perverted refugee policy

Today, January 13, 2024 | 11:28

New regulations from Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams, according to which busloads of migrants can only be delivered to Manhattan with advance notice and at certain times, do not impress the Republican Texan: “We will continue with our transport missions until President Biden announces his open- Border stance reversed,” Abbott threatened on X (formerly Twitter).

In order to circumvent the new rules from New York, he is now having the asylum seekers transported from Texas to train stations in New York’s neighboring state of New Jersey. There the people are immediately put on trains to Manhattan. In winter temperatures, scantily clad refugees in T-shirts with barefoot toddlers in their arms can be seen on train platforms in New Jersey.

More than 14,700 refugees abandoned on the streets

The month before, more than 14,700 refugees from Texas were abandoned on the streets in Manhattan overnight. “This problem will destroy New York,” Mayor Adams warned in the fall. After a record number of 14 buses carrying migrants from Texas were dropped off in New York in a single night over Christmas, Adams issued an order: Buses carrying refugees are only allowed into the city if they are registered at least 32 hours in advance.

In addition, bus drivers are no longer allowed to drop people off on the street at night, but only at a central point in the morning between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Bus drivers who do not follow the new rules face harsh penalties: three months in prison, confiscation of the bus and fines.

Regulation has no effect due to loophole

But so far the regulation has had no effect: “They have found a loophole in the system to ensure that refugees continue to reach the final destination – New York City,” New Jersey Mayor Michael Gonnelli reported in a press statement.

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The refugees are now being dropped off at a series of train stations in New York’s neighboring state, where they are given a train ticket and escorted to trains to Manhattan. Images of people and babies getting off buses in short-sleeved summer clothes and being led at train stations to the tracks with direct routes to New York sparked outrage.

“Abbott continues to use asylum seekers as political pawns and is now dumping families on cold, dark nights in neighboring cities and states with a train ticket to New York,” a city government spokesperson told CNN.

“New Jersey just said ‘Fk this'”

But the New York mayor’s requests to help accommodate the refugees seem to have fallen on deaf ears, even among his colleagues in New Jersey. Instead of accepting at least some of the asylum seekers in their own state, rail police from New Jersey accompany the arriving refugees straight to the trains to Manhattan, reports the New York Post.

“New Jersey simply said ‘Fk this,'” the daily newspaper quoted an observer as saying: They don’t want the refugee crisis to spill over from New York to New Jersey and have already put more than a thousand people on trains to Manhattan.

When it comes to migration, things are not looking good for President Joe Biden

In total, more than 140,000 refugees have arrived in New York in the last 18 months. At the southern border in Arizona and Texas there were 225,000 last month alone – a record since records began in 2000.

For more and more US voters, the refugee crisis is one of the most important issues in the upcoming race for the White House – a point on which things are not looking good for President Joe Biden:

When it comes to migration, the Democrat did eight percentage points worse in December polls than in the previous month. Only 38 percent of all voters rated Biden’s migration policy as positive in a recent survey (Harvard CAPS-Harris). Six out of ten respondents, however, preferred the refugee policy of his predecessor Donald Trump.

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