Roughly a dozen buses carrying asylum seekers have arrived in various New Jersey municipalities since Saturday, bypassing an executive order implemented by New York City Mayor Adams barring migrant buses from the city, except during 210-minute windows on weekday mornings.

The move appears to be a response from Texas, a Republican-led state.

Over the weekend, about 10 buses filled with migrants from Texas and one bus from Louisiana arrived in municipalities including Edison, Fanwood, Secaucus, and Trenton, according to the government of Jersey City.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said about 400 people arrived on the buses.

“It’s the first time that buses have arrived in New Jersey. The buses are looking to circumvent that rule,” Fulop said.

Secaucus Junction Train Station, located less than four miles from Midtown Manhattan, served as a primary drop-off point for the migrant buses, and is where four buses arrived on Saturday, and two more early Monday morning.

New Jersey has been primarily utilized as a transit point for the asylum seekers and their families, with most of them continuing on to their final destination of New York City.

The move to bypass Mayor Adams’ executive order was made after New York City moved to slow the pace of asylum seeker-filled charter buses arriving from southern states.

The order reportedly aimed to limit the number of buses carrying migrant families to reduce congestion around the Port Authority terminal. However, as the migrant buses continue to arrive in New Jersey, it remains to be seen whether this trend will continue and if new measures will be implemented to control the influx of asylum seekers.