Oops! There goes the narrative.
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am i doing that?
Guess who’s paying to bus illegal aliens from El Paso to New York City? Go ahead, guess.
The federal government is paying to bus illegal migrants from one border town to New York City, a Texas official told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The city government of El Paso, Texas, is busing illegal migrants to the Big Apple on the dime of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told the DCNF Monday. The federal agency covers the travel costs of illegal migrants through a grant program. (RELATED: DC To Allow Illegal Migrant Students To Enroll In Schools)
“The travel costs for migrants are covered through FEMA’s emergency food and shelter grant. The City/OEM submits for reimbursement on a quarterly basis as the process dictates,” D’Agostino told the DCNF.
“With the goal to provide for the safety of the migrants from the elements and to preserve the community’s transitory hospitality shelter capacities so they may continue to serve our homeless community, OEM [Office of Emergency Management] has sponsored and provided transportation services for migrants out of El Paso, which is reimbursable through FEMA,” he said.
The Office of Emergency Management has sponsored four charter buses to New York City, according to D’Agostino.
“The trips to New York City were specific to groups of individuals requesting transport to New York City. These groups had no sponsors or means to travel, so the City of El Paso and OEM offered and sponsored their transportation,” D’Agostino said.
El Paso began busing migrants to New York City because the local shelters lacked the resources to support the surge of migrants crossing the border, according to D’Agostino. Since October, over 1,900,000 migrants have been encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.
El Paso bused a group of 35 Venezuelan migrants to New York City, El Paso Matters reported Friday, and a second bus boarded 18 passengers on Friday.
“This issue remains a humanitarian concern for the City of El Paso and the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) due to the increasing number of migrants passing through the region, limited federal and local shelter capacities, and increasing number of migrants that are not sponsored or have means to travel,” D’Agostino told the DCNF.
When this is all over, perhaps someone will explain how flying illegals from Texas to Westchester County Airport and other locations around the country is a humanitarian act if performed by the federal government, but busing them from Texas to the same place, if done by a state, is, to quote KPP “shameful”.
I’m sure we’re all curious.
