This is what congestion pricing is going to fund.

Also reporting you as anti-equity.

Reporting you as anti-equity.

Equity takes time.

Oh I’m sure they’re all over it.

Apparently Ray is back at work, with three broken bones.

Ah. I agree, this should be borne by the federal government. But it isn’t and NYC apparently has no leverage to demand that it is. Yet we nonetheless voluntarily assume a crippling financial burden.

NY has no problems filing litigation of questionable merit of the politics suit it.

? I don’t follow.

We need to overhaul the system for adjudicating asylum claims. Claims that are facially invalid should be bounced within a month or two, rather than 4-5 years.

Unfortunately it takes 4-5 years before asylum claims are adjudicated.

It’s been my assumption but I don’t have a source one way or the other. Seems like a legitimate question.

My understanding is that these migrants have all filed asylum claims. That distinguishes them from undocumented immigrants subject to deportation.

If the feds have the authority to make southern and southwestern states stop busing migrants here, then it’s an outrage that the city hasn’t filed a lawsuit against those states yet.

There’s no exit plan. It’s a disaster.

Definitely going in the file for the asylum hearing.

> Through WhatsApp messages and in-person word-of-mouth, those who had been to the terminal had given unappealing accounts to those camping out at the Watson: that the shelter was cold, without adequate places to safely store their possessions, and that they’d be sleeping on cots.

>Some migrants chose to brave another cold night, while others took their chances at the Brooklyn terminal.

>“To be suffering like this, why?” said Kennedy Gonzalez, a 37-year-old Venezuelan, who decided to go to Red Hook after spending Tuesday night outside of the Watson. “One night and the cold weather was killing me. I didn’t come to The United States to suffer. I came here to work for my family.”

You don’t live here?

These migrant threads are usually pretty depressing because, with a handful of exceptions, the comments are generally from (1) people who clearly don’t live in NYC and don’t give a shit about NYC, and possibly actually wish bad things to happen to NYC; or (2) people who do live in NYC but who are either unable or unwilling to understand the threat that the migrant situation poses to the city.

Ask nicely.

The city and state should also be suing Texas and its participating cities. It’s ridiculous that they aren’t.