Two fresh busloads of migrants rolled into New York City from Texas on Wednesday — as the number of asylum seekers arriving in the Big Apple continued to surge.
The first bus — carrying 41 migrants, including 15 kids — arrived at Manhattan’s Port Authority terminal at about 7 a.m. from the US border town of Laredo, Texas, migrant advocates told The Post.
A second busload of asylum seekers, which carried 27 adults and 23 children from the same Texas town, pulled into the station at about 1:37 p.m.
The latest influx came as Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul both continued to insist Wednesday they were powerless to stop the flow of migrants into the city, which has so far topped 59,400 over the last year.
Roughly 1,100 asylum seekers arrived in the city over a four-day stretch last week between Wednesday, April 26 and Sunday, April 30, the latest City Hall figures show.
“It calls for a federal solution. Absolutely calls for a federal solution. And the mayor is doing the best he can,” said Hochul when asked about the new busloads of migrants after an unrelated press conference with the mayor.
“It’s really been a real challenge.”
Adams has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of turning its back on the city and last week called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop other states from shipping migrants here.
Hizzoner also claimed earlier this week that Texas was preparing to ramp up the number of migrants its shipping to the Big Apple — as he made the explosive allegation that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was trying to “hurt black-run cities.”
Adams insisted on Wednesday that the city had asked Abbott “over and over again” to stop bussing migrants to the city. The Post has reached out to Abbott’s office.
It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible for the fresh migrant buses, but the Adams administration pointed the finger squarely at the Texas governor.
“These are busses sent here by Gov. Abbott from the US-Mexico border,” Manuel Castro, Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, said outside the Port Authority terminal, without giving evidence.
“We have been welcoming anywhere between 2-to-300 people a day for some time now and with these busses restarting, we can expect over 1,000 people a day, which is incredibly difficult for us because we have been doing this for now close to a year.”
Castro doubled down on hizzoner’s prior criticism of the Biden administration, arguing the feds needed to expedite the work permits being issued to asylum seekers.
“We are disappointed that the federal government is not doing more to support families at the border, families who need quite a lot of assistance, especially emergency shelter as they await their asylum claims to be processed and for them to obtain work permits,” he said.
“Many of the families that we talked to tell us the same thing over and over — they are here to work, they do not want to depend on the government. But without the work permits, it’s really difficult for them because then they have to depend entirely on the city for shelter and services.”
Currently, there are 36,800 migrants who are currently being put up in the 120 city-run shelters and humanitarian relief centers across the five boroughs.