Adams greets border-crossers in NYC — but most skipped town over fear of crimeBy Kevin Sheehan and Lee Brown
August 7, 2022
Even border crossers are too scared of the crime-ridden Big Apple.
Mayor Adams tried to greet the latest bus load of migrants to get shipped in from Texas early Sunday — but was horrified to find the vast majority had already skipped, admitting it was likely through “fear” of the city.
“We were led to believe about 40 people should have been on that bus. Only 14 got off,” said Adams, whom The Post caught having heated words with an organizer during the alarming, unexpected 7 a.m. no-show at Midtown’s Port Authority Bus Terminal.
The mayor suggested that the most likely reason was “that because of the fear that something was going to happen to them if they came to this location, people got off earlier.”
“And we are concerned about that because we don’t want people being dropped off [just] anywhere,” he said as the handful who did get off, including young kids, were processed and then led out to cabs.
“We’ve got to work together — we’re not on different sides here, we have to work together,” Adams told the woman — who abruptly turned and walked off.
He later complained about the lack of info from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been shipping the migrants to Democratic regions to ease what he calls a “crisis caused” by “open border policies.”
“They’re not letting us know when the buses are leaving. They’re not letting us know what are the needs of the people on the bus. They are not giving us any information so we’re unable to really provide the service to people en route,” Adams complained of Abbott’s team.
“We would like to get that information,” he said.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/08/07/mayor-eric-adams-greets-latest-border-crossers-in-nyc/
