New York Mayor Eric Adams announced the closure of dozens more on Tuesday migrant sheltersas the “sanctuary” city continues to see a decline in arrivals and Adams continues to take an aggressive stance on illegal immigration.
Adams announced that 25 shelters will be closed in the coming months. The locations include the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Shelters in Albany, Buffalo and Poughkeepsie will also be closed outside New York City.
The blue city has seen more than 225,000 migrants arrive since 2022, a surge that coincided with a spike at the southern border and also a strategy by Texas to move migrants to cities like New York City to ease pressure on the border state.
New York Mayor Eric Adams leaves the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York City on Friday, November 1, 2024. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)
Now his government says the number of migrants entering the city has fallen in 22 weeks, allowing many of the shelters used to accommodate the influx to close.
Adams, who has been highly critical of the federal government’s handling of the migrant crisis, tied the decline in numbers to executive orders from the Biden administration that have limited the ability to seek asylum in the U.S. and have been linked with a sharp drop in the number of arrests. at the border itself.
He also linked it to the city’s own strategies to help relocate migrants, including ticket rebooking and case management.
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“Thanks to our smart management strategies, we have turned the corner, and this additional series of shelter closures we are announcing today is even more evidence that we are managing this crisis better than any other city in the country,” Adams said. in a statement. “Our intensive case management, combined with a 30- and 60-day policy, has helped more than 170,000 migrants take the next steps on their journeys, because migrants don’t come here to live in our shelter system – they come here for the American dream.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams has been critical of illegal immigration. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images | Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
“We continue to look for more locations to consolidate and close, and more opportunities to save taxpayer dollars, as we continue to successfully manage this response,” he said.
Adams has taken a more muscular approach illegal immigration than some of his Democratic counterparts in other blue cities across the country, some of whom have pledged resistance to the plan by the new Trump administration.
While he has emphasized the importance of work permits, case management and protection from deportation for some, he has expressed openness to working with the new Trump administration and border czar Thomas Homan on the deportation of illegal immigrants with criminal convictions.
‘I would like to speak to our border czar and find out what his plans are. Where we have common ground, we can work together. And I firmly believe that my history is shared with those on the other side of the aisle with different ways of thinking and thinking. sit down and share my ideas,” he said last week. “I believe I have some ideas that can address this issue, and we can accomplish what the American people have said to us: secure our borders, confront the people who commit violent acts in our country, and ensure that… our citizens will be safe.”
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Meanwhile, voters in the state of New York support the deportation of illegal immigrants, a new poll shows. The Siena College New York State Poll found that 54% of respondents believe the state should support any Trump administration efforts to deport immigrants living in the state illegally, compared to 35% of respondents who oppose the plans are.
Strong support was found across the state for newly elected President Donald Trump’s deportation plan New York City.
Stephen Sorace of Fox News contributed to this report.
