Immigration Watch International (2): New busloads of migrants arrive in NYC from Texas

Thursday, May 4, 2023

New busloads of migrants arrive in NYC from Texas

Two fresh busloads of migrants rolled into New York City after being shipped in by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday — as the number of asylum seekers arriving in the Big Apple continued to surge.

The first bus — carrying 41 migrants, including 15 kids — arrived at Manhattan’s Port Authority terminal at about 7 a.m. from the US border town of Laredo, Texas, migrant advocates told The Post.

A second busload of asylum seekers, which carried 27 adults and 23 children from the same Texas town, pulled into the station just after 1:30 p.m.

The buses were sent to the Big Apple by Abbott, his office confirmed Wednesday – just days after Mayor Eric Adams said the Lone Star state would be ramping up how many migrants it would ship to the sanctuary city.

“What Gov. Abbott is doing is clearly shameful,” Manuel Castro, Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, said after greeting the migrants as they hopped off the buses. “He is using children, migrants to make political points.”

The latest influx came as Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul both continued to insist Wednesday they were powerless to stop the flow of migrants into the city, which has so far topped 59,400 over the last year.

Roughly 1,100 asylum seekers arrived in the city over a four-day stretch last week between Wednesday, April 26 and Sunday, April 30, the latest City Hall figures show.

“It calls for a federal solution. Absolutely calls for a federal solution. And the mayor is doing the best he can,” said Hochul when asked about the new busloads of migrants after an unrelated press conference with the mayor.

“It’s really been a real challenge.”

Adams has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of turning its back on the city and last week called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop other states from shipping migrants here.

Hizzoner also made the explosive allegation this week that Abbott, who is white, was trying to “hurt black-run cities” by shipping migrants to NYC, a charge Castro reiterated Wednesday.

“He’s also targeting cities that are led by African-American mayors, and that’s just disgraceful, but what’s disappointing is that the federal government is allowing this to happen,” Castro said.

His claim comes even though El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, who is a Democrat and of Mexican descent, has shipped more than twice the number of migrants to the Big Apple and Chicago. Also, Abbot has sent migrants to places such as Philadelphia, whose mayor, Jim Kenney, is white.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/new-migrant-buses-arrive-in-nyc-from-texas/

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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New busloads of migrants arrive in NYC from Texas

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