There is a new controversy over how New York City is handling the latest influx of migrants from the southern border as the United States deals with a humanitarian crisis.
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The NYC Mayor's Office put out a statement Monday, saying in part:"We’ve been very clear for the last two weeks that New York City is out of space. Every single day, hundreds of asylum seekers arrive in New York with no support, after hundreds more arrived the day before, and thousands more in the days and week earlier. But, once again, we are stepping up, in the absence of a national solution to this national crisis and are coming up with our own decompression strategy.
“New York City has now cared for more than 65,000 asylum seekers — already opening up over 140 emergency shelters and eight large-scale humanitarian relief centers in addition to this one to manage this national crisis,” the mayor said in a statement announcing the Roosevelt decision. “They rent out every room at the hotel at a certain price every night,” Markowitz said, adding that it is bringing “substantially more revenue” than normal operations would have brought in.It’s not new for the city to turn to hotels for New Yorkers without homes when shelters and other options weren’t available.
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