NEW YORK — New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams‘ workplace mentioned despite the fact that immigration on the border is reducing, the variety of folks coming to the town continues to be rising.
Two extra emergency shelter websites are virtually able to open.
Metropolis officers mentioned three extra buses from Texas arrived at The Roosevelt Lodge on Monday.
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Chopper 2 was over a number of tents for 900 single males to sleep at at Creedmoor Psychiatric Middle in Queens Village. The shelter will open this week.
One other 2,000 asylum seekers shall be housed on Randall’s Island, which can open subsequent week.
On Tuesday, the mayor and different metropolis 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 greater than 100,000 have arrived within the metropolis.
“It is unfair, as the town continues to evolve, {that a} nationwide disaster, a humanitarian disaster of a stage that has by no means been skilled earlier than is now dropped into the lap of this metropolis with no help that we deserve,” Adams mentioned.
Adams mentioned the town will spend more more than $12 billion over a three-year period on the crisis.
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