Many migrants being bused from New York City to other towns face hostility
Jasmine Garsd for NPR reports that New York City officials have claimed that they are “overwhelmed” by migrants and have begun sending people to nearby communities. “While places like Albany, a sanctuary city, have welcomed new arrivals, many localities have expressed hostility toward immigrants.”
“In these non-sanctuary cities, folks are very much in fear of getting deported,” says Micky Jimenez, executive director of the nonprofit Capitol District Latinos. “If they work there, they go to work, and go back home. They are very much afraid.” Local nonprofits are stretched thin.
The report goes on
“Hostility toward immigrants in some of the towns where they are being bused is alarming to many advocates and lawmakers. During a judicial hearing over Rockland and Orange County’s executive orders banning any more migrants from coming in, White Plains federal Judge Nelson Román said the bans were reminiscent of `Jim Crow law. Not that I’m saying it is.'”
KJ
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