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Mayor Adams sets strict limits on when migrant buses can arrive in NYC

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Mayor Eric Adams meets with a coalition of concerned members of clergy to discuss the effects of the asylum seeker crisis on New York City. 287 Hegeman Ave,
Brooklyn. Tuesday, December 19, 2023. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.

By Tim Balk | tbalk@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News

PUBLISHED: December 27, 2023 at 5:18 p.m. | UPDATED: December 27, 2023 at 5:23 p.m.

New York City will only allow buses of asylum seekers to arrive between 8:30 a.m. and noon on
weekdays going forward, Mayor Adams said Wednesday, instituting the restrictions in concert with
Denver and Chicago, which created broader windows for bus arrivals.

Adams said New York City’s policy, implemented through executive order, is intended to create a
more orderly process for asylum seekers to arrive in the city as the migrant crisis stretches the shelter
system beyond its limit.

Denver and Chicago will have weekday windows for migrant bus arrivals that will roughly span
business hours, the mayors of those cities said in a news conference with Adams on Wednesday.
Denver’s daily window is to last from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and Chicago’s is to span from 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, the mayors said.

Adams said New York’s policy would not punish migrants who are bused to the city. The city plans to
enforce the three-and-a-half-hour arrival window through fines and lawsuits, and potentially by
impounding buses, Adams said.

“This is not stopping people from coming, but about ensuring the safety of migrants and making sure
they can arrive in a coordinated and orderly way,” Adams said. “We know the importance of this
moment. We are working together.”

InNew York, buses will be required to provide 32 hours’ notice before arriving in the city with
migrants, according to Adams’ office, and will only be allowed to arrive at city-approved locations. The
executive order takes effect immediately, according to its text.

Adams said New York City has reached a “breaking point” in the asylum seeker crisis, pointing to deep
cuts in the city’s budget that his administration has tied to the challenge.

“It’snot much different here in Chicago,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago. “The public good is

already stressed.”

Chicago, America’s third-largest city, is providing care to about 15,000 migrants, Johnson said.

New York and Chicago’s migrant crises have followed similar paths, with the two Democratic-led
cities struggling to house the masses of migrants, and both mayors sometimes quarreling with their
states’ respective Democratic governors over resource allocation.

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A bus with migrants arrives at the Port Authority in Manhattan.

Adams, Johnson and Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston — all Democrats — joined in calling for more
federal support and ridiculing Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, for shipping buses from Texas filled
with migrants.

More than 161,000 migrants have arrived in New York since spring 2022, according to an official tally.
Many asylum seekers, fleeing political and economic upheaval in South America, have traveled to New
York or other northern cities without being bused by Texas.

But Abbott’s office said this month that Texas has bused more than 25,000 migrants to the city since
summer 2022.

And the border state appears to be stepping up its efforts. Last week, 14 buses with asylum seekers
arrived in New York in a single night, according to Adams’ office. More than 14,000 migrants have
arrived in New York City in the last month, said the mayor’s office.

“We cannot continue to do the federal government’s job,” said Adams, who has regularly called for
more support from Congress and the Biden administration.

He said the challenge facing northern cities has been exacerbated by Abbott’s “cruel, inhumane
politics.” Abbott’s office did not immediately reply to request for comment for this story.

Johnson insisted that Chicago, which has historically embraced broadly welcoming policies for
migrants, is not aiming to keep asylum seekers out.

“This is an international crisis of global population shift,” Johnson said. “What we simply have
articulated is this: If you’re sending buses to Chicago, there has to be coordination.”

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