Mayor Eric Adams said Friday that New York City was at its 'breaking point' after reportedly receiving more than 3,100 asylum seekers over the course of the past week.
said Friday that the Big Apple is at its"breaking point" as record numbers of migrants continue to arrive.
"We are at our breaking point. Based off our projections, we anticipate being unable to continue sheltering arriving asylum seekers on our own and have submitted an emergency mutualbeginning this weekend," he said in a statement."This type of request, reserved only for dire emergencies, asks the state for support to shelter arriving asylum seekers as the city faces an immediate need for additional capacity.
Migrants arriving from Del Rio, Texas, get off a bus at Port Authority in Manhattan on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022.Since the spring of 2022, he noted that the city had taken in around 40,000 asylum seekers, opening 74 emergency shelters and four humanitarian relief centers.
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