At least 40 migrant families are getting evicted from a Manhattan hotel, among the 4,800 asylum seekers with kids who have reached the end of Mayor Eric Adams's 60-day shelter limit.
Over the weekend, several buses carrying migrants who'd recently crossed the southern border were headed to New York, but they were diverted instead to New Jersey. It's the most recent effort by officials to manage a crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of migrants arrive in northern cities. William Brangham reports.
The mayor made the assertion during a sitdown with Fox 5 s Rosanna Scotto , where he revealed the city s sanctuary has hindered his ability to handle the crisis.
NEW YORK — Nearly 70,000 migrants crammed into hundreds of emergency shelters. People sleeping on floors, or huddled on sidewalks in the December cold. Families packed into giant tents at the edge of the city, miles from schools or services. And New York City is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a month to care for them all. This fall, an official in the administration of Mayor Eric Adams referred to the city’s obligation to house and feed the 500 new migrants still arriving each day as “