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Via press release from the New Jersey city of Secaucus:
Yesterday morning the Secaucus Police Department and town officials received word from the Hudson County Executives’ Office that several buses transporting migrants in route for New York had arrived at the train station at Secaucus Junction. The first bus arrived the morning of December 30th. From what we understand after being dropped at the train station the migrants then took trains to New York City.
The Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, recently signed an Executive Order regulating how and when busses carrying migrants can enter the city and drop off passengers. These regulations, in part, require bus operators to advise the Commissioner of Emergency Management at least thirty-two (32) hours advanced notice before arriving and limit drop off times to weekdays only between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and noon. Violators are subject to fines and impounding of their bus.
“It seems quite clear the bus operators are finding a way to thwart the requirements of the Executive Order by dropping migrants at the train station in Secaucus and having them continue to their final destination”, stated Mayor Michael Gonnelli.
ABC News reports:
Gonnelli called the tactic a “loophole” bus operators have found to allow migrants to reach New York City, and added that state police have reported that “this is now happening at train stations throughout the state.” Gonnelli vowed to work with state and county officials and to “continue to monitor this situation closely.”
A message posted on a social media account for Jersey City said the city’s emergency management agency reports that “approximately 10 buses from various locations in Texas have arrived at various transit stations throughout the state, including Secaucus, Fanwood, Edison, Trenton.”
About 397 migrants had arrived at those locations since Saturday, the post Sunday said. New Jersey officials are “closely coordinating with federal and local officials ”including our colleagues across the Hudson.”
New Jersey mayor says buses of migrants bound for New York City are stopping at train station in his town, others in apparent effort to evade executive order by New York’s mayor. https://t.co/IOvS0Fm2Jj
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