Good morning. Today is Wednesday. We’ll look at how the migrant bus rides that Governor Greg Abbott of Texas sent to New York are putting pressure on social services here. But first, a recap of Tuesday’s primaries.
Representative Jerrold Nadler, the influential chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, defeated his congressional neighbor and longtime ally, Representative Carolyn Maloney, in a contentious three-way race.
Nadler, who capitalized on his popularity among Democrats after bringing the impeachment of former President Donald Trump through the Judiciary Committee, turned against Maloney after his district was in the West and Her in the East is incorporated. He gathered endorsements from beyond his longtime Upper West Side establishment, including one from Senator Elizabeth Warren.
“We won with votes from the East and the West,” he said during a victory celebration. “I am humbled that so many New Yorkers find themselves moved by our shared belief in principled progressivism.” He also thanked Maloney, saying they have “spent most of our adulthood working together for the better of New York and our country.”
Nadler won with more than 55% of the vote, compared with 24% for Maloney, with 95% of the vote reported. The third candidate, Suraj Patel, who narrowly beat her two years ago, has 19%.
In other elementary competitions statewide:
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Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, the moderate charged with defending the Democratic House majority as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Advocacy Committee, turn down a challenge from Alessandra Biaggi, according to The Associated Press. She was a radical state senator who was endorsed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Dan Goldman is the winner of the 13 Democratic primaries in the new district connecting Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, according to The Associated Press.
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Pat Ryan, the Democrat seeking the Hudson Valley House seat vacated when Antonio Delgado stepped down to become lieutenant colonel governor, defeated his Republican opponent, Marc Molinaro. Ryan was able to keep his early lead, eventually winning 52% of the vote against Molinaro’s 48%.
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Representatives Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican, and Max Rose, a Democrat, won primaries in a county that includes Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn. Malliotakis didn’t meet Rose, a veteran who was wounded in Afghanistan and was awarded a Bronze Star, in 2020. Malliotakis, the only Republican on the city’s congressional delegation, voted to overturn it. the results of the 2020 presidential election and voting against the impeachment of the second President Donald Trump.
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New York has a reputation for welcoming newcomers – the city’s economy depends on them, and in many ways, so does its spirit. But a flow of Texas immigrants are creating challenges. Governor Greg Abbott sent bus after bus to Washington and New York to upset the Biden administration and pressure Democrats over border policy. I ask Andy Newmanwriter on social services and poverty in New York City, to explain.
The first bus from Texas seemed like a stunt. Is Abbott making this a policy?
It’s actually part of a policy Abbott introduced this spring called Operation Lone Starto send people crossing north to Democratic-led cities.
Mayor Adams’ office claimed that Abbott had been sending buses to New York for months. Abbott’s office says that’s not true and that he only started sending buses to New York after Adams started accusing him of doing so. As if Texas were to say, “You think we’re sending you busloads of migrants? Fine, we’ll send you migrant buses! “
Abbott’s office also declined to coordinate with officials in New York and tell them when the bus would arrive or how many people were on board.
I asked Abbott’s office why not. A spokeswoman replied: “If the mayor wants a solution to this humanitarian crisis, he should stop complaining and call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border – which President The system continues to fail.”
What will the arrival of thousands of migrants on buses from Texas mean for New York? Isn’t the social safety net here uncomfortably thin?
Right. The Texas emigrants come at a time when the city is dealing with many issues around homelessness and housing.
People have to stay in homeless shelters longer because of a lack of affordable housing, because of bureaucratic issues with housing vouchers, because many landlords refuse to let tenants pay rent. government subsidized housing. The pandemic relocation moratorium that expires in January means hundreds of households are evicted each month in a market where rents have skyrocketed.
Housing for migrants will be difficult, but not housing them is not an option. New York is one of the few cities in the country to have a “temporary right of residence” law, which means the city must provide shelter to anyone who requests it.
This wave of immigration is different from the waves of the past. What extra pressure did that put on the system?
The more typical pattern of migration is that people go where they already have family and friends who can give them jobs and places to stay.
A large number of those in the current wave fleeing the ongoing economic disaster are Venezuela.
New York City doesn’t have much of a Venezuelan community, so there are few social networks to engage with.
In addition, many migrants have no intention of coming here. Some say they were tricked into boarding a bus in Texas with promises that they were going somewhere else – where they really wanted to go and have loved ones.
Where have Mayor Eric Adams and city agencies been? What role have volunteer groups played?
The city was captivated by the currents and spent most of the summer playing catch. For weeks, advocates have said the city is not helping migrants enough and is letting volunteers do the job of receiving migrants and connecting them with food, shelter and legal assistance. .
Now, when the Abbott bus arrives at the Port Authority, there is a welcome center that pops up, staffed by the city and aid groups like Team TLC NYCprovide food, clothing, medical care, and transportation to shelter reception offices.
The city plans to open a reception center and shelter specifically for immigrant families in Midtown next month. It has also rented 1,300 hotel rooms to immigrant families and called for 5,000 more.
But at the rate migrants are arriving, 5,000 rooms won’t make it. Since mid-July alone, the family shelter population has grown by 8.5 percent. If that rate continues for a year, family homes will need to nearly double their capacity and add nearly 30,000 people.
METROPOLITAN . Diary
New pearl earrings
Dear Diary:
It has become late. I sat on the sidewalk fence, waiting for the downtown bus on Fifth Avenue.
I pulled the collar of my coat up around my neck and the cloak knitted down around my ears. I was hoping to avoid the wind that was just beginning to make its presence known. With no bus in sight, I readjusted my weapon against the cold and felt my earlobe give a slight twitch.
I reach up to determine how I feel, and as I do, my new pearl earring slips, falls through my gloved hand, bounces off my upturned collar, turns left with scarf and glides down the front of my coat and over the net I’m standing on.
I stood there, just staring for a minute while realizing that there was probably nothing I could do to lift the earring out of the darkness under my feet.
