The continued arrival of migrants in NYC comes amid an escalating political battle that has seen GOP governors send asylum-seeking migrants to Democratic-led states.
The city’s longstanding right to shelter is now forcing the system to house all the migrants or risk being sued. “We are not reassessing the right to shelter. We are reassessing the city’s practices around the right to shelter. No one could have imagined," Brendan McGuire, chief counsel to the mayor, said.
Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken a page from Texas and is flying 48 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
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