New York Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order on Wednesday requires all charter buses transporting immigrants sent from other states to notify the city 32 hours in advance to ensure they are adequately staffedand warned that failure to do so will be considered a criminal offense, with possible fines, lawsuits and even seizure of the vehicles.

The order limits immigrant arrivals Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. local time and 12:00 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. GMT – 5:00 p.m. GMT), and buses must drop passengers at a specific location unless the city Emergency Management office specifies differently, Adams said during a news conference with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston.

Mayor Johnston indicated that they introduced an ordinance similar to New York’s just over a month ago, while Denver is in the process of doing so.

Adams has said the arrival of more than 150,000 immigrants since April 2022, 68,000 of them in city care, has created a budget crisis that will result in $12 billion being spent on immigrant services by mid-2025. , meals, education for children and other forms of assistance, without the aid requested from the federal government having arrived.

In the spring of 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott will do so began sending buses of immigrants to cities with Democratic mayorsfirst Washington and then to New York, to, according to the Republican, share the immigration burden his state faces as a result of the policies of President Joe Biden’s administration.

It has also sent immigrants to Boston (Massachusetts), Denver (Colorado), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Los Angeles (California).

Other immigrants have come to New York on their own from different states, and the city is obligated to provide shelter if they request it, due to a court order issued 42 years ago that Mayor Adams ordered evicted due to the financial crisis.

As there has been no response from the court – the case is still being discussed – and the flow of thousands of immigrants into the city continues, Authorities were forced to convert hotels into shelters and set up tents.

In addition, the time for singles to find housing is limited to 30 days and up to 60 days for families with children, which advocates say has been widely criticized, especially because of the impact this will have on minors. immigrants.

Adams has also made cuts to city agencies, which the executive order added today.

The three mayors reiterated their criticism of the federal government for not providing them with the economic relief they have asked for and for not addressing an immigration problem that they say is national and should not be solved solely by cities.

The announcement comes as a new migrant caravan of thousands of people heads toward the country’s southern border, and as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Mexico to discuss the very issue of irregular migration with the president. Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (JO)