The Mayor of El Paso, Oscar Leeser, on Sunday defended busing thousands of illegal immigrants to New York City, saying city officials are doing so to ensure that they don’t end up homeless or hungry.
“The people are not coming to El Paso, they’re coming to America,” said Leeser, a Democrat, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “We don’t send anyone where they don’t want to go. We make sure we help them.”
Leeser, who served as mayor from 2013–2017 and was reelected last year, said that nearly 2,000 illegal aliens arrived on Friday, and that those numbers are continuing to increase….