BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – Local officials in suburban areas outside New York City and Chicago are fighting to keep migrant bus arrivals from unloading migrants in their neighborhoods.
The ongoing illegal immigration crisis — which broke a record in December with over 300,000 encounters at the border in a single month — continues to put a strain on communities as migrants are bussed north from the southern border.
“We empathize when someone is trying to seek asylum or when someone is trying to take them in. But we don’t have the capacity to take them in,” said Mayor Reed Gusciora of Trenton, New Jersey.
The mayors from all three cities, jointly drafted a letter that was sent to mayors of the nearby suburbs. “It will be on your best interest to start taking some of the migrants,” the letter began. “And if you refuse, we’ll have some of the residential houses bulldozed, and put tent cities on top of the flattened homes!”