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Texas is sending migrants to New York and Washington, DC, by bus. Many are glad to go
Lower than per week since discovering shelter in Eagle Move, Texas, after crossing the Rio Grande, they launched into one other journey Thursday morning: this time to Washington DC, on a bus.
Many, like Figueroa, are comfortable to go away Texas. The buses cease at a number of cities alongside the way in which to the Northeast, permitting migrants to disembark to reunite with family and friends in different areas. In Washington DC, Figueroa and her husband will meet with their associates.
“We have been on the street for thus lengthy, we do not thoughts two or three extra days,” Figueroa, 28, instructed CNN in Spanish.
Neither do Cousins Luis Pulido and Aynner Garrido, who spent six weeks touring from Venezuela to Texas. Pulido’s youthful brother didn’t make it to the US with them. He disappeared when the group was swimming throughout the Rio Grande. Shelter officers in Texas instructed Pulido they discovered his brother’s physique; he had drowned.
However the cousins have made it this far and are decided to proceed with their plans. They may board the bus to DC and can get off earlier than their vacation spot, in Kentucky, the place their kinfolk shall be ready to choose them up.
“They need to go on the buses,” stated Valeria Wheeler, the chief director of Mission: Border Hope, a non-profit group which serves the border group in Eagle Move. “Nobody has been pressured.”
The teams are going partly as a result of they need to, Wheeler added, and partly as a result of it’s a free journey to New York or Washington.
“They’ve basically weaponized this example,” Manuel Castro, commissioner of the mayor’s immigrant affairs workplace, stated in a current metropolis council listening to. “We have discovered that the bus firm that they have been working with has a nondisclosure settlement that doesn’t enable them to speak with the town of New York.” Abbott’s workplace didn’t reply CNN’s prior questions regarding nondisclosure agreements for bus corporations.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams has additionally accused Abbott of forcing migrants onto the buses, which the governor has denied.
Again in Eagle Move, greater than 40 individuals, together with males, ladies and kids, boarded the bus headed for DC Thursday morning together with cousins Pulido and Garrido, and Figueroa and her husband.
When she will get there, Figueroa instructed CNN she hopes to have the ability to discover work cooking, cleansing or in an workplace, to have the ability to help her household again dwelling.