Migrants in Jersey? Fuhgettaboutit.
New Jersey officials are making sure the Big Apple doesn’t dump the out-of-control migrant mess on the Garden State — and are even deploying cops to usher asylum seekers from the US border onto Manhattan-bound NJ Transit trains as soon as they get off their buses.
The scrap across the Hudson comes as New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tries to rally the state’s mayors to form a unified front, while New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleads with Murphy to take on at least part of the migrant burden that is burying the five boroughs.
“New Jersey just said, ‘F–k this,'” one source close to the situation told The Post on Wednesday. “New Jersey Transit cops were waiting for them in Secaucus to show them how to get on the train to New York.”
Multiple Garden State sources described the scene as hectic over the last few days, as nearly two dozen migrant buses rolled into train stations with “chaperones” — with NJ Transit cops then taking over and serving as guides to get nearly 1,000 asylum seekers across the river.
The process has been successful so far, with no migrants choosing to stay in Jersey.
Since Saturday, 23 buses have dropped off 1,017 asylum seekers in New Jersey — with 953 then boarding trains into Manhattan and the rest going elsewhere, according to data reviewed by The Post.
The new wrinkle in the old crisis stems from Adams’ move last week to issue an executive order limiting the influx of migrant buses from the border, most of them from Texas.
Adams demanded 32 hours’ notice before the buses arrive in Manhattan, and they may only do so at one spot on West 41st Street — and only between 8:30 a.m. and noon.
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11.23.2024