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A very cold night a few weeks ago.
Yeah.
Explain what time it is, where we are, what we're doing.
It is 11:14pm and we are waiting for a Texas bus.
Texas bus with who in his side?
So we don't know the number yet, but we have asylum seekers that are there that just come from the border.
This is one of the buses that Governor Greg Abbott sent to New York City starting in the summer of last year.
You've probably heard about this.
Hoping to make a point about what Texas is dealing with, he sent migrants on buses to cities run by Democrats.
Washington, D.C.
los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and New York.
Over 27,000 people have arrived at this spot.
This way.
Where many of them have been greeted by a 5 foot 2 black woman named Adama Baugh.
How many nights a week do you do this?
I don't keep counting anymore.
But what's the most it gets like?