New York City will open the city’s first asylum-seeker arrival center next week, as hundreds of migrants continue to arrive in the city each day, following the expiration of a pandemic-era border restriction, city officials said.
The center will double as the city’s ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center, as officials continue to plea for more state and federal government support in handling what Mayor Eric Adams refers to as a national crisis. Officials have warned the expiration of Title 42, which went into effect on Thursday, could invite a crush of migrants and aggravate the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, CNN previously reported.
Officials in Orange County and Rockland counties filed lawsuits attempting to stop the plan, even though some migrants have already arrived, CNN previously reported. The mayor said the program will launch with two hotels located in the small hamlets of Orange Lake and Orangeburg. Adams’ spokesperson, Fabien Levy, told CNN there is capacity for up to 300 migrants between the two hotels initially, with the potential to “expand.
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