Friday 12 August 2022 02:19 PM 89 MORE migrants including five children are bussed into New York City with ... trends now

Friday 12 August 2022 02:19 PM 89 MORE migrants including five children are bussed into New York City with ... trends now
Friday 12 August 2022 02:19 PM 89 MORE migrants including five children are bussed into New York City with ... trends now

Friday 12 August 2022 02:19 PM 89 MORE migrants including five children are bussed into New York City with ... trends now

ANOTHER migrant bus arrives in New York City with 89 people on board – including five children: Ambulance waits at Port Authority for ‘very, very sick’ person arriving from Texas as a number of people on board test positive for COVID Another busload of 89 immigrants arrived in NYC from Texas today, including one family with a child as young as one An ambulance waited at Port Authority for a 'very, very sick' passenger Several of the passengers have been tested for COVID and are positive

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New York City welcomed another busload of 89 immigrants from Texas today, including one family with a child as young as one. 

An ambulance was sent to wait at Port Authority for the migrants as one passenger is 'very, very sick' and needs medical attention.

Those on the bus have been tested for COVID and there have been 'a number of positive tests,' says Miguel Santana, who works in the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Some migrants on the bus were separated from their families before the trip and weren't aware they were headed to New York when they boarded the bus, including a man separated from his pregnant wife and children.

NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs chief of staff Miguel Santana greets migrants bussed in from Texas on Friday

NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs chief of staff Miguel Santana greets migrants bussed in from Texas on Friday

Santana said some of the passengers were eventually heading to other final destinations including Chicago and Florida

Santana said some of the passengers were eventually heading to other final destinations including Chicago and Florida

'Clearly in Texas they are not being given the support that they need,' said Santana, who added the migrants were 'exhausted and tired'

'Clearly in Texas they are not being given the support that they need,' said Santana, who added the migrants were 'exhausted and tired'

The man's wife was left in Texas, while their grandmother was sent in the opposite direction to San Antonio. 

Santana said some of the passengers were eventually heading to other final destinations including Chicago and Florida and expressed concern at 'how they

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