New York City officials line up to SHAKE HANDS with migrants after being bused in from Texas: Families are handed blankets and escorted to Manhattan hotels

Busses of migrants sent to New York City from Texas were welcomed with handshakes and an official escort from members of Mayor Eric Adams' administration in Manhattan Sunday.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered over a dozen buses of migrants to the Big Apple, Chicago, and Washington DC in an attempt to show them the nature of the crisis at the border.

So far, Texas has forked out nearly $13million to Wynne Transportation - the charter service that is taking migrants to the various cities. Around 44 migrants got off Sunday's bus, which was ordered to New York by El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser.

Each of the arriving migrants at the city's Port Authority were greeted with a handshake from a local leader, a blanket and were then escorted to a local hotel.

Manuel Castro, the Director of Adams' Office of Immigrant Affairs, said: 'As in previous days, our priority is to make sure that the asylum seekers are well. We have food water medical services inside the port authority.'

And late on Sunday night, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that 50 migrants had also been dropped off in her city.

Castro revealed earlier this week that City Hall has been forced to strike emergency deals with the hotels because the shelter system is overloaded.

Five more buses arrived on Thursday from Texas, carrying migrants relocated by Texas Gov Greg Abbott.

The same number of buses arrived on Wednesday, which was a record number for migrants arriving at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Castro revealed that more than 6,000 migrants have needed help from the city since May, including at least 750 on the buses that Abbott began sending them to New York from Texas.

Two weeks ago City Hall stated that 11 hotels were being used to help ease the pressure, but that has now been upped to 14.

City Hall has also confirmed that they are no longer planning to house 600 families at the luxury The Row hotel near Times Square in NYC which is regularly packed with tourists.

New York City will rent 5,000 hotel rooms to accommodate migrants arriving on buses from Texas in addition to the 1,000 already announced by Mayor Eric Adams.

During a press conference yesterday, Castro also explained that both Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul appealed to officials in other states for help housing the migrants.

However, he did not identify any of the other cities or leaders who have been contacted to assist in the support scheme.

He said: ‘Unlike Gov. Abbott, our mayor and our governor are showing true leadership by actively coordinating with the White House and federal government and governors across the country and mayors across the country to see how we can work together to address the need to resettle asylum-seekers.’

Mayor Adams announced last week that hotels in District Two, where were 'opening daily and serving as shelters.'

He also said that any children who travel across the border would be integrated into the school system and will receive supplies and backpacks.

Andrea Catsimatidis, chair of the Manhattan Republican Party, said: 'NYC is looking for an extra 5,000 hotel rooms to house bused in migrants.

'So now we have illegal immigrants instead of tourists in our hotels. Imagine that impact on our economy, crime, and tax dollars.'

The NYC Hotel Association has said operators are ready to put up thousands of migrants to help the city's housing problems.

Vijay Dandapani, president of the group representing nearly 300 hotels, likened the migrant crisis to the homeless shelter situation of the pandemic.

He told DailyMail.com: 'Individual hotels who may or may not be our members could get involved in this, and in the past during the height of the pandemic, we were directly involved in moving people from homeless shelters to hotels.

'We are there ready again, with our stakeholders in the city to do the necessary thing if that is what asked of us.

'Everyone is doing this voluntarily it depends on how they view it. You are certainly not going to see the luxury five star hotels participant it but three or four starts as they did during the pandemic, may help as that market has not yet come back to pre-pandemic levels.

'We ourselves are ready and we have done it in the past and we'll do it again. It's a dynamic situation early next week.'

Abbott started moving migrants to DC in April to protest President Biden's ‘irresponsible open border policies’ before also bussing them into the Big Apple.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11179387/Migrants-shake-hands-bussed-New-York-City-Texas-handed-blankets.html

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