Migrants abandon NYC for Canada with taxpayer-funded bus tickets

 Migrants are fleeing Gotham on bus rides paid for by New York taxpayers

• National Guard soldiers have been helping distribute tickets at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan to migrants who want to head upstate before crossing into Canada
• Destinations are limited to within the US due to restrictions that prohibit the migrants from leaving the country while on immigration "parole" pending the outcome of asylum proceedings
• Word has spread among the migrant community that Canada - where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has touted the country's "proud and longstanding tradition of welcoming people seeking safety" - is the place to go

Peruvian native Susy Sanchez Solzarno, 33, crossed from Roxham Road into Canada with her husband and two daughters early Friday morning.

• "You have entered into Canada. You are under arrest," a Mountie said. "Take everything from your pockets and put it in your bags - only 'dinero' [Spanish for'money'] in your pockets."

Venezuelan native Manuel Rodon, 26, who arrived in Plattsburgh around 4 a.m. Saturday, said he decided to leave the city after getting "kicked out" of the Row NYC hotel near Times Square and relocated to a homeless shelter in Brooklyn.

• Rodon described the shelter as "OK" except for the American residents.

Rodon, who crossed the border about an hour after getting to Plattsburgh, said he knew eight other Venezuelans who'd made the same trip.

• "They all got free tickets, too. It was the same process," he said. "It took them three days through customs."
• All told, he hoped to quickly get a work permit in Canada.

Adams has called for the White House to speed up that process and to grant the city $1 billion in emergency aid to help to provide migrants with housing and other services.

• Last month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to commit to fully granting Adams' request, saying only that unspecified, new funding would be "available to border cities."

Migrants in New York City

• 43,900 migrants have flooded into the city since the beginning of the spring, living in hotels, shelters, and makeshift camps
• The New York National Guard has been deployed to the Port Authority Bus Terminal to help with re-tourneying

https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/migrants-abandon-nyc-for-canada-with-taxpayer-funded-bus-tickets/