Free Bus Passes for Migrants
One Saturday afternoon, I was at Newark PennStation, interstate bus pick-up point where I was seeinga friend off on a greyhound when shortly afterward, alarge, unmarked coach bus had pulled up.It had stopped at the point of the curb where a NJTransit customer service rep was standing. The dooropened and out was coming (one by one) a wholebunch of those migrants from the southern border. TheNJT rep was handing each person stepping off the busa pass and saying to them “Welcome to New Jersey”.As I watched this all, I had asked the NJT rep what hewas handing each of them and he said, “one-monthunlimited ride bus passes”. Nobody coming offappeared to speak English but they each all smiled asthey were given their bus pass.Other people were there observing what I wasobserving, but most said that they didn’t want to getinvolved. A few laughed about the situation. After awhile, the rep turned to me and said… Read More »Free Bus Passes for Migrants