An intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel reached capacity, forcing asylum seekers to take shelter in buses over the weekend.
said the building would provide asylum seekers with “access to a range of legal, medical, and reconnection services, as well as placement, if needed, in a shelter or humanitarian relief center.” It was slated to offer up to 850 rooms for children and families.
Fabian Levy, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, said in a statement that the city is doing its best to find placements for the 93,000 migrants that have come through the city and that its intake system has “run out of space every single day.” Adams recentlyto Washington, D.C., and met with U.S. Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who promised to visit the city and appoint a DHS employee to take the lead on the city’s needs for its asylum seekers.
“We still desperately need help from our state and federal partners, but, in the meantime, we encourage migrants to take us up placements available outside of New York City as they become available,” Levy said. Some asylum seekers who have sought shelter outside of the city — or who have been prodded there by city government — have faced their own set of challenges as well. The
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