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Adams ‘welcomes’ 200 El Paso

migrants a day from fellow Dem mayor
— but slams Abbott buses
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Mayor Eric Adams agreed to “welcome” migrants sent to the
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Gov. Greg Abbott over a similar relocation program.
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Democrats’ hypocrisy The deal — which sees the city embrace as many as 200
new arrivals a day — also came as Adams repeatedly
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asylum-seekers that one local pol has said created “a scene
that you would see in a third-world country .”
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As of Wednesday, El Paso’s Office of Emergency
Management had paid for 33 charter buses to travel here , a
spokeswoman for the Texas city said.

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Midtown Manhattan and drop off scores of migrants. photographers outside home

El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said at a public meeting this week that he spoke to Adams about his
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decision to send a group of senior advisers to Texas last week on what City Hall called a “fact-finding
mission to…get the real answers we’re not getting from Texas.”

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El Paso’s Office of Emergency Management paid for 33 charter buses to drop off migrants in New York.
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Leeser said that they discussed El Paso’s relocation program and that he told Adams most of the
migrants being sent to New York were from Venezuela.

“We’re very thankful to Mayor Adams from New York that really stepped up to help us and, you know, he
did tell me when I, when I spoke with him that there is not a community there within New York from
Venezuela,” Leeser said at an El Paso City Council work session Monday.

“But he will welcome them into his community and then work with them to get them to a community where
there is, there are peers, so they can continue to be there and that’s really important to him.”

Leeser said the influx of migrants to El Paso was “very manageable”

when “we had two, three hundred a day.”
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“Now, we have 1,400 a day. It’s easy math: multiply 1,400 times 30
and that’s 42,000 in a month period. So that’s a really big number and
we need assistance,” he said.

Leeser also said that “the mayor of New York has been very proactive
with us and we’ve had the ability to talk to the mayor of New York.”
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“He has actually sent four people to El Paso to make sure that they understood the process,” Leeser
added.

Adams’ administration first found out that busloads of migrants were arriving from El Paso late last month,
the El Paso Matters website reported at the time.

In April, Abbott began sending migrants to Washington, DC, to protest what he calls President Biden’s
“irresponsible open-border policies” and their impact on border communities in the Lone Star State.

Migrants are arriving in other major cities now.

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Abbott expanded the program to New York City in early August and on Aug. 31 announced that the first
bus from Texas had arrived in Chicago .

All three cities are run by Democratic mayors.

Meanwhile, Adams has repeatedly condemned Abbott in highly

personal terms, calling him cowardly, unpatriotic and a “global
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In a response Friday, Adams spokesman Fabien Levy denied
that the city had agreed to accept the migrants being sent from El
Paso.

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press secretary Fabien Levy said.

“As anyone who listens to the recording can hear, that’s not what
the El Paso mayor said and Mayor Adams certainly didn’t offer to accept additional buses, let alone ever
even intimate that.”

Levy added: “The truth is clear, we’re dealing with an unprecedented crisis that has pushed our city’s
system to near its breaking point.”

There is conversation that Mayor Adams could do more for the incoming migrants.
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But City Hall also released a statement from Leeser that said, “We greatly appreciate the assistance and
cooperation of Mayor Adams, his team and the people of New York as we address this developing
situation that is changing on an hour-to-hour basis.”

“We are also working with our federal counterparts and [nongovernmental organizations] as we work to
treat all individuals humanely while following the laws of the United States,” the statement added.

Leeser, however, didn’t return a request for comment on the Adams response to his statements at the
council meeting.

Meanwhile, a charity worker who greeted the migrants arriving in the city from El Paso on Thursday
blasted Adams’ administration for not doing enough.

“We are getting absolutely no help from the city,” said Power Malu, executive director of the Lower
Manhattan-based nonprofit Artists Athletes Activists Inc.

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“Whether it’s the food that we’re feeding them with, whether it’s the clothes being donated, we’re taking
people to the places where they need to go — everything that we’re doing is coming out of pocket.”

City Hall didn’t respond to a request for comment on those remarks.

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