Mayor Eric Adams announced the creation of a new government agency Tuesday to deal with the Big Apple’s $4.2 billion migrant crisis — and said he was in talks with other mayors across t…
Mayor Eric Adams says he’s in talks to relocate migrants to other “cities within the state and across the country.”The Office of Asylum Seeker Operations will move the city’s temporary migrant-processing center out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.
“Our goal is to help them to become self-sufficient as soon as possible. That is the No. 1 goal,” he said during a news conference at City Hall. Adams said that “no matter where I go, I’m hearing the same thing from the asylum seekers: ‘We don’t want to be a burden. We want to work. We want to be part of what this, all that we heard about being in this country.”
Hizzoner also said he was going to “move towards long-term housing and resettlement” of the city’s migrant population, which includes more than 30,900
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