Watch Now: Mayor Eric Adams answers questions as more asylum seekers arrive in New York City.
In the meantime, housing remains a top problem. City officials say they are out of space but are working to find new places to put them.
The governor and mayor have been begging for federal aid, saying without it, they can only open new shelters on city land, like, and state land, like the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, where tents are almost ready for men to move in. On Tuesday night, hundreds of residents protested the Creedmoor site, and tensions flared between them and a small group of counter protesters. The city's commissioner of Emergency Management urged everyone in Queens to support the asylum seekers.
"All of them want to work, most them you talk to have extraordinary stories about a loved one back home they're trying to support," Commissioner Zack Iscol said."I think in doing that, they would find this is just another generation of future Americans." Dozens of asylum seekers have also been sent away from the city and are now staying elsewhere in the state, including Monroe County, where 77 of them are being housed at a Holiday Inn. That group includes 30 children and a pregnant woman. The mayor is expected to speak about the issue later Wednesday morning.
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