Immigration advocates fear high-profile migrant shelters will be easy pickings for the new president’s deportation effort.
Immigration and housing advocates are stepping up calls for Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to expedite the closure of high-profile migrant shelters ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
Advocates worry that highly publicized sites might draw special attention. That includes the roughly 3,000-person migrant shelter in an empty office building in “Turning our federal parks into encampments for unvetted migrants from all over the world is unfair to surrounding communities and the taxpayers who are being forced to foot the bill while our mayor bankrupts our city and slashes services from our citizens,” Malliotakis said in a statement last year, when she announced legislation to prevent migrant housing on federal land.
But Kliff said the city still lacks the capacity to do so — and city officials have said it certainly won't happen by Trump’s inauguration in January. About 57,000 migrants currently live in city shelters.
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