migrant crisis

Democratic mayors of four major cities said Wednesday that Congress and the Trump administration are exaggerating crime committed by immigrants and attacking so-called sanctuary cities simply to score political points, as Republicans hammered the policies for shielding criminals and discouraging cooperation with federal officials. The comments came in a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where…

Romney Smith reports.

After two years, the migrant intake center at the converted Roosevelt Hotel in midtown is closing this summer. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports. 

Tracie Strahan reporting on migrant intake center at Roosevelt Hotel to close.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday announced the planned closures of both the Asylum Seeker Arrival Center and Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center located at The Roosevelt Hotel, marking a significant milestone in New York City’s nearly three-year asylum seeker humanitarian response. The site has been instrumental in supporting hundreds of thousands of migrants on their...

New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent months. The last of the roughly 2,000 people living on a windswept tarmac at Floyd Bennett...

Days after it stopped accepting migrant families, Mayor Eric Adams took a tour of Floyd Bennett Field, which has been acting as a shelter for many months. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

New York City said the huge migrant shelter on Randall’s Island is set to close in February. Officials said a steady decline in the arriving migrant population has changed the reality and necessity of the temporary shelter. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

A tent shelter on city parkland — Randall’s Island — got the official word Wednesday that it will be closing down in four months.  “We are going to be able to close that site by the end of February,” said Anne William’s-Isom, New York City’s deputy mayor who oversees the humanitarian response.  She cited 14 consecutive weeks of declining...

New York City is expanding a program it launched in March that gives prepaid debit cards to migrants staying in city-funded hotels, allowing them to buy food and baby supplies at specified stores. 

Immigrants in New York’s shelter system may be getting evicted even if they are pregnant, according to an audit of the city’s shelter eviction policies

The challenges of NYC’s asylum seeker crisis are many, from the cost of caring for nearly 200,000 people arriving, to concerns about crime that have led to curfews at many migrant shelters. But the leader of one of the many groups helping migrants settle here says there are also successes to celebrate. NBC New York’s Michael Gargiulo reports.

New York City will move to end its contract with a medical services company hired to house and care for a recent influx of international migrants, following scrutiny over the firm’s costly deal with the city and the quality of its humanitarian services. Mayor Eric Adams’ office on Tuesday said the city would not renew its contract with DocGo before it expires...

NYC is now issuing pre-loaded debit cards to asylum seeking families, along with some more new shelter rules too. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports. 

Many migrants currently in NYC shelters will be given housing for 30 days, and then they’re on their own. The city’s so-called “right to shelter” will remain in tact, including for migrants, but a new deal with homeless advocates will give the city more power to determine how long migrants can stay in those shelters. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo...

The shelter requirement has been in place for more than four decades in New York City.

New York is stepping up their security at migrant shelters in the city. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports. 

For the second time in two days, police uncovered an illegal makeshift migrant shelter, this time in the Fordham neighborhood in the Bronx — and both illegal shelters were in businesses owned by the same man. NBC New York’s Chris Jose reports.

For the second time in as many days, police uncovered an illegal makeshift migrant shelter housing dozens of people inside a commercial business, this time in the Bronx.

A complaint about e-bikes led to a shocking discovery: Dozens of migrants living in a Richmond Hill basement. More than 70 migrants were living in the basement, with beds stacked close together — and so many people living there, they were forced to sleep in shifts. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.