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New York will not be able to prevent the sending of buses full of immigrants from Texas

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By Evaristo Lara

09 Nov 2024, 17:04 PM EST

Judge Mary Rosado’s ruling will prevent New York from rejecting shipments of buses full of immigrants from Texas.

In early June, Eric Adams, mayor of New York, announced that nearly 200,000 immigrants have arrived in New York in the last two years.

Several of these people crossed the entire country transported from Texas on buses whose cost has been sponsored by Republican Governor Greg Abbot in a strategy aimed at pressuring the government to seal the southern border to prevent more caravans of immigrants from arriving through it. .

Desperate for the saturation of people in the shelters, this even after renting several hotels so as not to leave anyone without shelter and foodDemocrat Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, tried to stop the flow of immigrant buses to the city and even filed a lawsuit against 17 companies that carried out the displacement and demanded compensation of $708 million dollars to compensate for the city’s expense of maintaining the newcomers.

“New York City has and will always do its part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the costs of the reckless political maneuvers of the state of Texas alone,” the African-American Democrat said at the time.

Next year, the fate of immigrants could change with the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House. (Credit: Eric Gay / AP)

However, Judge Mary Rosado determined that this is unconstitutional, since “it violates a fundamental right: the right to travel.” That is to say that Local governments cannot control passengers’ interstate travel solely based on their socioeconomic status.

With the limitation of providing only 30 days of shelter for single immigrants and 60 for families with children, currently, more than 65 thousand people are housed in spaces inhabited as temporary shelters in New York, since a court order requires that Those who demand it when they arrive in the city are offered basic services to get ahead.

However, The situation for immigrants will possibly begin to change after January 20 of next year once Donald Trump again assumes the presidency, Well, it is most likely that surveillance will be redoubled on the border with Mexico and even with Canada.

Even worse for immigrants is what could arise with the mass deportation proposal that the new federal administration intends to implement.

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