Although immigration at border is decreasing, number of asylum seekers coming to NYC is rising, Adams administration says
NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams' office says even though immigration at the border is decreasing, the number of people coming to the city is still rising.
Two more emergency shelter sites are almost ready to open.
City officials said three more buses from Texas arrived at The Roosevelt Hotel on Monday.
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Chopper 2 was over several tents for 900 single men to sleep at at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village. The shelter will open this week.
Another 2,000 asylum seekers will be housed on Randall's Island, which will open next week.
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On Tuesday in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall, the mayor and other city leaders renewed their calls for the Biden administration to come up with a national strategy to address the asylum seeker crisis.
The mayor now says more than 100,000 have arrived in the city.
"It's unfair, as the city continues to evolve, that a national crisis, a humanitarian crisis of a level that has never been experienced before is now dropped into the lap of this city with no support that we deserve," Adams said.
Adams said the city will spend more more than $12 billion over a three-year period on the crisis, adding the feds should give asylum seekers the right to work.