For months, Mayor Adams has been pleading for President Biden to step up and provide aid to help with the asylum seeker crisis. Thursday, White House officials visited NYC and met with the mayor, promising to collaborate. JennBisramTV reports.
Meanwhile, the City Council Committee on General Welfare and Immigration held a hearing Thursday on how the mayor's 60-day shelter limit will impact the right-to-shelter law.
"The day before the first asylum buses came, there were over 50,000 New Yorkers already in the shelter system, with an average time over a year," Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said. , Adams said the asylum seeker crisis is costing the city about $383 per family per night. With 57,000 asylum seekers and counting in the system, that's $3.6 billion for the year. . That's nearly equal to the FDNY, DSNY and Parks Department budgets combined.
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