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Big Cities Struggle To House Migrants, Asylum Seekers

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Across America, big cities facing an influx of migrants, struggling to provide basic resources.

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Texas will be taking its own unprecedented actions to do what no state in America has ever done in the

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history of this country. Last year Texas is Republican governor Greg Abbott

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announced his plan to deal with the thousands of migrants crossing the southern border every day.

0:25.7

He began transporting them out of Texas, sending migrants and asylum seekers to cities across the

0:30.8

U.S.

0:31.8

An influx of migrants to New York and other

0:34.0

sanctuary cities is testing their already strained social safety

0:38.0

governor Greg Abbott has confirmed within the last hour that he is in fact sending a

0:42.3

bus of migrants here to Philadelphia.

0:44.6

The Chicago Mayor Lorry Lightfoot taking some parting shots before leaving office.

0:49.6

She's calling on Governor Abbott to stop what she calls the inhumane and dangerous busing of migrants to other

0:55.8

saying the huge number of immigrants and what he framed as poor immigration policies unfairly

1:01.1

impacted southern border towns Abbott laid the problem at the feet of President

1:05.0

Biden, literally by busing migrants to Washington, D.C.

1:09.7

We are sending them to the United States Capitol where the Biden administration will be able to more

1:13.8

immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border.

1:17.2

The idea caught on in one high profile example, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis directed plains of migrants to the wealthy vacation spot Martha's Vineyard, the small island off the coast of Massachusetts.

1:29.0

Abbott has expanded the busing, he calls it Operation Lone Star, to Denver and Los Angeles, and continued

1:35.8

to route buses filled with men, women, and children to D.C., New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

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The move has led to outrage from immigration rights groups.

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Folks are arriving to New York City at times having had little or no food,

1:50.8

little or no water, having received no medical care.

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