The Migrants Texas Sent to New York City
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🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
As part of a stunt to protest the Biden administration’s immigration policies, the governors of Texas and Arizona have been sending bus-loads of migrants to DC and New York without any support. Immigrant advocate groups are scrambling to take care of these people, who were vulnerable well before being used as political props.
Guest: Murad Awawdeh, Executive Director at New York Immigration Coalition & NYIC Action
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| 0:35.0 | The day I spoke with Marado Wada, he had been up at dawn at New York's Port Authority |
| 0:39.8 | Terminal, waiting for a bus full of migrants to roll in. |
| 0:44.2 | The journey's super long. It's a two-day ride at times, you know, given very little food |
| 0:49.5 | if any food at all. They're coming off the bus with nothing in hand, except for their |
| 0:54.0 | paperwork that they were given by immigration officials. |
| 0:57.8 | They had started in Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other parts of South and Central America, |
| 1:04.9 | eventually crossing the U.S. border to seek asylum. And then, they found themselves on |
| 1:09.7 | a bus, some with no idea where they were headed. |
| 1:14.3 | Like they did a huge journey to get to the southern border, and then they're bused another |
| 1:19.6 | two days to New York City without real care or support. Some folks are coming off the |
| 1:25.4 | bus sick. There's a little girl who needed insulin. There's a young man who had chest pain. |
| 1:30.2 | Marado Wada is the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, a nonprofit |
| 1:35.6 | network helping the city provide for the new arrivals. Texas began busing asylum seekers |
| 1:41.1 | and other migrants northward in April, or the orders of Governor Greg Abbott. |
| 1:46.4 | Under New York City, more than 100 asylum seekers arrived on buses from Texas early Wednesday |
| 1:51.3 | morning at Port Authority, the bus terminal near Times Square. Another bus arrived Sunday |
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