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New York City mayor declares state of emergency over migrant buses

Eric Adams says he expects to spend at least $1bn by end of fiscal year on crisis as Texas governor continues to send migrants

The Guardian - US

Mayor Adams declares state of emergency over NYC migrant crisis, pleas for help from feds, state

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the city’s migrant crisis and pleaded for financial and legislative assistance from the federal government and state lawmakers.

Tribune News Service

NYC mayor declares state of emergency amid migrant busing crisis

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency on Friday in response to thousands of migrants bused to the city in recent months from the U.S. southern border in a political dispute over border security.

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New York City mayor declares state of emergency over busing of migrants from Texas

Mayor Eric Adams said the city needs emergency funding to provide shelter to migrants and other people without housing. He also asked El Paso to stop sending migrants there.

The Texas Tribune

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declares emergency over migrant buses

The city expects to spend $1 billion to help the asylum seekers by the end of the fiscal year, Adams said.

Axios

Democrat-led Texas city steps up migrant busing to New York, outpacing Republican effort

The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas' Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S. border security.

Reuters

Fears of ‘operational and moral failure’ at New York’s migrant tent city

An emergency shelter will house hundreds of people seeking asylum, including people bused north by Greg Abbott. One site flooded, the contractor built Trump’s border wall, and rights groups warn the plan runs afoul of a right-to-shelter mandate while city shelters are overwhelmed, Alex Woodward reports

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Gov. Greg Abbott acknowledges New York City mayor’s office reached out about migrant busing efforts

Abbott previously said Eric Adams’ office had not reached out to him about coordinating migrant arrivals in New York City and faced criticism that he was rebuffing efforts from the mayor to communicate.

The Texas Tribune

After storms, NYC moving location of planned migrant shelter

A facility to temporarily house migrants being sent to New York City will now be located closer to Manhattan instead of a remote corner of the Bronx

The Independent UK

Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke accused each other of misinforming Texans during their debate. Here are the facts.

O’Rourke and Abbott accused each other of bending the truth during the only planned gubernatorial debate on Friday. Many of their claims needed context and clarification.

The Texas Tribune

Fact-checking the Texas governor debate between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke

WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and challenger Beto O’Rourke clashed over a range of topics Friday night in their sole debate, not always with the facts on their side.

Tribune News Service

New Yorkers welcome asylum seekers sent on ‘uncomfortable’ ride from Republican states

In midtown Manhattan, volunteers receive families bussed from the south amid simmering political and legal rows

The Guardian - US

Why Eric Adams is building a migrant ‘tent city’ in The Bronx

Thousands of people seeking asylum have recently arrived in New York City, where an overburdened shelter system is strained by compounding crises. The mayor’s latest plan worries advocates who fear it could violate right-to-shelter mandate, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

NYC mayor blasts Kansas, saying it ‘doesn’t have a brand.’ The Sunflower State disagrees

Who needs the coasts when you can live in the heart of America?

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The Guardian - UK

New York nodded off during Covid, now it’s struggling to wake up again

The city’s bounce-back from the pandemic hasn’t been helped by a shortage of staff and fewer people looking to party

Tribune News Service

Mayor Adams likely to beef up police presence as plans for migrant tent camps in Bronx move ahead, official says

NEW YORK — Out of public safety concerns, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is likely to surge more cops into the Bronx neighborhood where it plans to soon start housing hundreds of Latin American migrants in tent camps, according to the local Council member.

Axios

Where GOP governors are transporting migrants

A look at when GOP governors have transported migrants since the spring — and how those U.S. cities are responding.

The Independent UK

As shelters fill, NYC weighs tents to house migrants

New York City’s mayor says he plans to erect hangar-sized tents as temporary shelter for thousands of international migrants who have been bused into the Big Apple as part of a campaign by Republican governors to disrupt federal border policies

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The Texas Tribune

New York Mayor Eric Adams slams Greg Abbott for refusing to coordinate migrant busing effort

In an interview for The Texas Tribune Festival, Adams called the Texas governor’s program shipping migrants to his city “inhumane” and “un-American.”

Al Jazeera

New York City opening emergency centres for asylum seekers

Mayor says new centres will provide shelter, food and healthcare to hundreds of people bused into the city each day.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The needle and the good done: Mayor Adams retires a rule that never went into effect

The very short answers to two questions posed to New York Mayor Eric Adams this week when he announced the end of the city’s private employer vaccine mandate nicely encapsulate the logic and science — or, we should say, lack thereof — behind the policy, put in place by Bill…

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court to hear police detective's challenge against NYC’s municipal COVID vaccine mandate

NEW YORK — The Supreme Court will consider a New York Police Department detective’s challenge against New York City’s municipal coronavirus vaccine mandate — after initially deciding against picking up the case.

Tribune News Service

Hurricane Fiona strengthens to Category 4 storm as it approaches Bermuda

Hurricane Fiona continues marching north through the Caribbean, leaving blackouts and flooding in its wake.

The Independent UK

Influx of migrants from GOP-led states tests Dem strongholds

There are few places in the U.S. with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City

The Guardian - US

Volunteers extend a hand to migrants from Texas: ‘We welcome them’

Mass bussing has been called a political stunt, but New York non-profit groups have mobilized to offer a sense of humanity

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