New York mayor receives migrants expelled from Texas

New York Mayor Eric Adams has notified the townspeople of another bus with migrants arriving in the city.

"Texas authorities refused to take responsibility for those migrants," Bloomberg quotes the mayor as saying.

Adams noted that migrants have faced "appalling" treatment in Texas.

"I should support the families that are here and this is what we are going to do. This is our responsibility," he said.

The first bus full of migrants arrived in New York on August 5. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has recently said that this way he is testing the desire of New York to become a city of refuge.

Abbott, who has consistently criticised the administration of US President Joe Biden for a surge in illegal migration, has promised to send more migrants to New York and Washington.

The mayor of New York, in turn, accuses Abbott of using migrants as "political pawns".

Washington's authorities have recently sent a request to the Department of Defence for the deployment of National Guard forces to avoid a humanitarian crisis in the capital.