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New York City

Scores of migrants trying to get back into NYC shelters return to East Village

Hundreds of migrants are flooding the East Village in New York City in search of shelter as the city struggles to find housing.

Nearly 70,000 people seeking asylum are currently in the city's care, with thousands arriving each week. [ more ]

ABC News

New York City announces lawsuit against bus companies sending migrants to city, seeks $708 million

New York City is suing 17 bus and transportation companies for $708 million to cover the costs of caring for migrants

The lawsuit is a response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott's scheme to transport migrants to New York City [ more ]

New York Post

New Jersey deploys cops to send dumped migrants to NYC in desperate move: 'F-k this'

New Jersey officials are taking measures to prevent asylum seekers from being dumped in their state by New York City.

New Jersey Transit cops are serving as guides for asylum seekers, helping them board trains to Manhattan as soon as they arrive in New Jersey. [ more ]

New York Post

Mayor Eric Adams wants to expand migrant bus crackdown to planes, trains

Mayor Eric Adams wants to add trains and planes to his executive order limiting migrant buses arriving in New York City.

Adams is trying to prevent busloads of migrants from thwarting the crackdown by heading to New Jersey and then taking trains into Manhattan. [ more ]

Scripps News

NYC mayor issues executive order to manage city's migrant bus crisis

New York City mayor issues executive order requiring notice and information before arrival of migrants

Migrant buses limited to one loading zone and specific hours, violations may result in jail time and fines [ more ]

Intelligencer

The Eric Adams-Greg Abbott Feud Continues to Escalate

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is suing 17 Texas charter-bus companies for not paying the cost of caring for asylum seekers transported by the state. The city is seeking to recoup approximately $700 million.

Although Texas Governor Greg Abbott is not personally named in the lawsuit, Mayor Adams made it clear that the legal action is intended as a message to the governor.

Abbott's Operation Lone Star, which transports asylum seekers to sanctuary cities, has been criticized for civil-rights abuses and its hefty price tag of $2.5 million per week. [ more ]

Cbsnews

Mayor Eric Adams sues 17 charter bus companies for $700 million for transporting migrants to NYC

Mayor Eric Adams is taking legal action against 17 charter bus companies used by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to transport migrants to New York City.

Adams is seeking at least $708 million in reimbursement for the city's expenses in providing shelter and services to the asylum seekers.

The lawsuit argues that Abbott's policy violates New York's Social Services Law by not requiring the companies to pay for the continued care of the asylum seekers. [ more ]

Chicago Tribune

Migrants dropped at Elgin Metra stations en route to Chicago haven't posed a problem for city, mayor says

Migrants are being sent to suburban communities like Elgin from southern border towns.

Elgin has received multiple groups of migrants who are being transported to Chicago. [ more ]

Washington Post

Migrant buses sent to Chicago and New York suburbs to flout city rules

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending migrants to suburbs of Democrat-controlled cities to bypass restrictions on buses.

Migrants are being dropped off in surrounding suburbs as far as 90 minutes away from cities due to new regulations on bus arrivals. [ more ]

BKReader

Mayor Adams Condemns Texas Governor for Migrant Bussing

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called out Texas Governor Greg Abbott for bussing asylum seekers to New York, causing strain on the city's resources.

Adams issued an executive order requiring charter bus companies to provide advance notice of the arrival of buses with migrants, but Abbott found a way to circumvent the policy. [ more ]

BKReader

Coalition of Mayors Calls for More Federal Support on 'Migrant Crisis'

Mayors of New York, Chicago, and Denver are calling for more federal support to manage the asylum seeker crisis in their cities.

Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order requiring improved coordination from charter bus companies transporting new migrant arrivals into New York City. [ more ]

Cbsnews

New York City Mayor Eric Adams issues new requirements for charter buses carrying asylum seekers from Texas

Mayor Eric Adams issues executive order for private buses carrying asylum seekers into NYC from Texas

Order requires buses to provide information and give notice before arriving, and restricts drop-offs to specific hours and locations [ more ]

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www.independent.co.uk

Sunak forced to defend Rwanda plan after leak suggested he had significant doubts

Rishi Sunak defends Rwanda deportation plan

Leaked documents suggest Sunak had doubts about the scheme [ more ]

BBC News

Tony Blair urged 'radical' measures to cut asylum, archive papers reveal

Papers from 2003 reveal that Tony Blair was presented with various measures, including a detention camp on the Isle of Mull, to address the issue of migration to the UK.

Advisers questioned the need for an asylum system altogether, suggesting that refugees would have already passed through safe countries before reaching the UK. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

Tony Blair considered sending asylum seekers to a camp on the Isle of Mull

Tony Blair considered sending asylum seekers to a camp on the Isle of Mull to drive down the number entering the UK.

The plan also called for the creation of safe havens in countries like Turkey and South Africa for refugees who couldn't be returned to their own country. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

Housing asylum seekers on Bibby Stockholm barge is discriminatory, Home Office finds

Housing asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge is discriminatory, according to the Home Office's own review of the policy.

New York Post

Education

NYC schools chancellor Banks loses 3rd chief of staff in 2 years, key staffer on migrant influx

Melissa Aviles-Ramos is leaving her position as chief of staff in the city Department of Education to join private Monroe College.

Ramos played a key role in welcoming and serving asylum seeker children in city schools. [ more ]

New York Post

Photos show NJ cops putting migrants to NYC-bound trains as beef between the states heats up

New Jersey is systematically shepherding asylum-seekers onto trains bound for New York City in the middle of the night.

Queens Borough President is calling on New Jersey to do more to address the migrant crisis. [ more ]

NewsNation

Hundreds of migrants fill buses in neighboring New Jersey cities in attempt to get to NYC

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) - It's a new year and a new chapter in a year's old saga involving the migrant crisis in New York City.

Truthout

Left-wing politics

Biden White House Asks Supreme Court to Allow Federal Removal of Texas's Razor Wire at Border

The Biden administration has filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to lift a lower court injunction blocking the removal of razor wire along the US-Mexico border.

The motion expedites the process for lifting the injunction and requests a faster response for national security purposes. [ more ]

New York Post

Left-wing politics

Biden can stop the migrant caravan heading to the border - if he cared

Mr. President, stop this caravan.

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An estimated 8,000 people set off on Christmas Eve from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula.

www.aljazeera.com

Europe news

In 2024, Europe to hunt for new partners to offload asylum seekers

Europe is increasingly outsourcing its border management and asylum processing to other countries in an attempt to curb NGO search and rescue operations.

The number of asylum seekers entering Europe by boat and land has increased by 66% in 2023 compared to the previous year. [ more ]

Chicago Tribune

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago enter new year at a crossroads

On Mayor Brandon Johnson's first full day in office, he visited ground zero of the crisis that would come to define his next seven months.

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Democratic mayors renew pleas for federal help and coordination with Texas over migrant crisis

Mayors of Chicago, New York City, and Denver are calling for more federal help and coordination with Texas regarding the growing number of asylum-seekers arriving in their cities.

The mayors criticize Texas Governor Greg Abbott's busing operation, saying buses arrive at unpredictable hours and outside designated drop-off zones. [ more ]

Chicago Tribune

Mayor Brandon Johnson joins mayors from New York and Denver to call for federal help with migrants

The mayors of Chicago, New York City, and Denver are calling on the federal government to provide more resources as they near a 'breaking point' in dealing with the influx of asylum-seekers.

They are requesting increased funding, expedited permits, better communication between border states and receiving cities, and a coordinated entry system. [ more ]

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: In 1967 and 2023, too little room at the Inn of Chicago.

Often headlined "Mary and Joseph in Chicago," Mike Royko's 1967 Christmas essay had the unique distinction of being reprinted for years by all three Chicago newspapers for which the late, great columnist worked, including this one.

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Running

Sanctuary Runners: An Irish Organization Breaking Barriers With Running

Ireland is not a country with a long history of immigration.

www.independent.co.uk

France politics

Plane held in France for four days over human trafficking is redirected to India

A plane carrying hundreds of Indian nationals has landed in Mumbai, four days after it was detained in France over suspected human trafficking.

www.theguardian.com