NEW YORK — New York City plans to open humanitarian relief centers for asylum seekers coming from Texas and states along the southern border, Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday.
The Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers will offer aid to individual and family asylum seekers by providing them food, medical care, shelter and casework services, Adams said in a press release. The centers will be the"first touch point" for asylum seekers arriving in the city, the release says.
"It's the worst type of politics," Adams told"Nightline.""It's hateful politics to raise his national profile and, you know what, you should not be doing it by taking away the respect and dignity of people who are in need." Adams said during a June 21 press conference that the city would find shelter for migrants arriving from Texas under the state's"right to shelter" law.