“The buses keep coming”: Advocates plead for government help for asylum seekers

Over 7,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City in recent months – and there are more coming every day.

Immigrant advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall on August 26 to ask the federal government, as well as New York state and city lawmakers, to take urgent action to assist the wave of asylum seekers coming to New York City.

In early August, Texas Governor Greg Abbott began busing migrants to New York City after they were detained crossing over the U.S. border from Mexico. Considered a backlash from the Republican Abbott to President Joe Biden’s open border policies, the endeavor has caused thousands of immigrants to funnel regularly into the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.

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