TEXAS IN OVERDRIVE

Record 9 migrant buses arrive in NYC

A record number of buses carrying migrants rolled into New York City on Sunday, adding pressure to a shelter system already overwhelmed by asylum-seekers.

At least nine busloads arrived from the Texas border to Midtown’s Port Authority Bus Terminal by midafternoon, one more than last week’s previous apparent record of eight in a single day.

Typically, between 40 and 50 migrants have been on each bus before they are dropped off and assisted by the city and nonprofits.

Sunday’s buses came as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been ramping up the number of migrants he has been transporting to Democratic-led cities such as New York to protest what he calls President Biden’s “open border” policies.

On Friday, an aid worker at the terminal confirmed that the buses had begun arriving at an increased rate about two weeks ago.

“Before, it used to be one or two a day, three days a week,” the worker told The Post. “Now it’s six or seven in a day and almost every day, sometimes even at night.”

Six buses arrived from El Paso on Saturday. Many of the migrants said they came from Venezuela.

On Sunday, The Post observed several of the buses carrying children and their families. Nonprofit groups greeted the weary but smiling travelers and ushered them to an area to get care and supplies.

Dozens of the migrants were expected to board buses and be taken to the city’s packed shelters.

The tidal wave of migrants to the city has helped create what homeless advocates have called the worst crisis for the shelter system in more than a decade.

As The Post exclusively reported Sunday, the Bellevue Men’s Shelter in Kips Bay is now filled with a mix of newly arrived migrants, unhinged vagrants and sex offenders — a unstable situation that locals fear is a tinder box poised explode in the residential neighborhood.

‘I worry for my bed’

Rafael Aybai, 26, who is staying at the men’s shelter, on 30th Street and First Avenue, told The Post on Sunday that he saw at least two buses of migrant men get dropped off in the morning.

“I worry for my bed. So I don’t know if they got a bed,” he said.

A 29-year-old migrant from Venezuela, who gave only his first name, Oscar, said on Sunday that people helping the new arrivals have told him and others that “this is for a few days and then they will send us somewhere else to sleep.’’

Oscar said he had been at the shelter for 20 days now.

“Not everyone here has their own bed” he said. “Ones without beds are sent to other shelters in Brooklyn and Queens.”

He said he previously worked as a cop and barber in his home country and is now looking for maintenance work in the area.

“I passed through the Darien jungle,” he said. “I came from Venezuela without money. It took two months and 15 days to get here.”