NYC Expands Asylum Assistance Amid Migrant Crisis and Budget Cuts

As the city grapples with a migrant crisis, Mayor Eric Adams calls for a national strategy, while migrants face long waits in cold temperatures to reapply for shelter.

New York City is expanding assistance to asylum seekers, including the opening of two satellite sites to help with applications for asylum, work authorization, and other programs.
The city is grappling with a migrant crisis that has led to massive budget cuts across multiple departments, including education, policing and sanitation.
Mayor Eric Adams has blamed the federal government for the crisis and called for a national strategy to solve it.
Migrants who have been evicted from shelters after 30 days are being sent to a former school in the East Village to reapply for housing, leading to long lines and hours of waiting in cold temperatures.
The city has begun limiting shelter stays for adult migrants to one month, citing lack of capacity to house new arrivals.