5 migrant buses mark the most ever to arrive in NYC from Texas in one day
Some things are getting bigger in Texas — namely, the convoys of buses carrying migrants to New York City.
Five buses rolled up outside the Port Authority terminal in Midtown Manhattan in little more than an hour Wednesday morning, with three arriving around 6:15 a.m.
Two more pulled in around 7:30 a.m.
Prior to Wednesday, the most buses to arrive in the Big Apple in a single day was three.
City officials said latest the caravan carried a total of 237 passengers, including 14 children, all of whom were accompanied by their parents.
One of the kids was a skinny, adolescent boy who grinned ear-to-ear as he stepped onto the sidewalk and shook hands with city Assistant Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs Erick Salgado.
The unidentified boy carried a clear plastic bag of clothing and was wearing brightly colored, leaf-patterned shorts and what appeared to be an American-flag-themed T-shirt.
The buses were among scores chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who in April began relocating migrants to Washington, DC, to protest what he calls President Biden’s “irresponsible open border policies.”
Abbott acknowledged expanding the program to New York City on Aug. 5, following allegations by Mayor Eric Adams that he’d already done so.
Last week, Abbott’s office said it’s transported over 800 border-crossers to New York City on at least 15 buses.
Wednesday’s buses arrived shortly after The Post published an op-ed column by Abbott in which he accused Adams of spouting “outright lies and misinformation,” and said Hizzoner’s “fabricated claims about Texas’ treatment of migrants have no basis in reality.”