NYC Is Paying for Migrants to Leave and Texas Is Top Destination
A bus carrying migrants who crossed the border from Mexico into Texas arrives into the Port Authority bus station in New York in 2022.
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Texas has boasted of busing more than 45,000 migrants to New York City. Some are going right back.
New York has issued 4,507 one-way tickets to Texas through a voluntary program that transfers asylum seekers out of the city, according to Mayor Eric Adams’ office. That’s almost 10% of the 47,000 trips that New York has paid for starting in 2022 amid an influx of more than 200,000 migrants that strained public services.