NEW YORK - Five buses carrying a total of 223 migrants and asylum seekers from Texas arrived at the Port Authority Terminal on Thursday, just a day after 237 asylum seekers arrived, setting a record for the most migrants to make their way to New York City in a single day.City officials say that over 7,000 migrants are now in shelters across the city.
New York City officials have expressed concerns that some of the migrants who have arrived were wearing bracelets with barcodes on them."Governor Abbott is now bar-coding asylum seekers," said Manuel Castro, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. "Yesterday we witnessed how they were scanning and removing barcodes from asylum seekers as they were arriving.
He is treating people as less than human, he is treating them as cattle, we have been condemning this type of behavior, he is attempting to dehumanize people."RELATED: One-day record number of migrants arrive in NYCCastro said that many of the people wanted to get off the bus in different states, but were afraid to do so, fearing they were being tracked.
Abbott accused New York City Mayor Eric Adams of hypocrisy in an essay written in the New York Post on Wednesday. Thousands of asylum seekers are caught in a political battle exposing the deep divide between Republicans in border states and Democrats in the country's most liberal cities.