Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s Note: New York City is a migrant’s best hope for staying in the U.S.
The city, while struggling to shelter the recent influx of asylum-seekers, remains a critical destination for those fleeing persecution in their native countries thanks to the available resources and legal help.
Immigration
Policy
Unions back bill to give immigrants legal representation in New York
The Access to Representation Act would help people facing deportation if they fall below a certain income level.
Heard Around Town
Policy
‘We just have to do better.’ NYC Council speaker criticizes mayor on migrant ‘standoff’
Adrienne Adams said that while the mayor’s calls for more funding are important, he needs to make policy changes too.
Immigration
Politics
New migrant shelter is heated, local pol says, but privacy and other concerns remain
New York City Council members were offered tours of the new emergency relief center at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal several days after it opened.
New York City
Policy
As some asylum-seekers resolve to stay at Manhattan hotel, others catch the bus to Brooklyn
“We want a good place to live like humans,” one 22-year-old from Venezuela said of being told to leave a Manhattan hotel for a barracks-style shelter in Red Hook.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Nonprofits to provide child care support to undocumented children
The Chinese-American Planning Council, among other organizations, is partnering with Promise NYC to operate the city-initiated services.
Immigration
Policy
Amid “crisis,” Adams defends cruise terminal migrant shelter
The New York City mayor has grown increasingly fed up with criticism levied at his administration’s efforts to house asylum-seekers.
Immigration
Policy
NYC migrant crisis is not the first immigration issue to flummox Hochul
Experts and lawmakers argue Hochul didn’t do enough to tackle immigration in her State of the State address.
Immigration
Politics
Adams on migrant crisis: NYC can’t do it alone
The New York City mayor pitched a “national czar” to better manage the influx of asylum-seekers at the southern border.
Immigration
Policy
NYC requests state support in sheltering 500 asylum seekers
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city will soon be unable to continue sheltering migrants on its own.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s Note: It’s time for Washington to pay the bill on New York City’s migrant crisis
Mayor Eric Adams is right to call for federal aid.
News & Politics
Politics
'New York has done its share,' Eric Adams says on migrant crisis
The mayor is making direct calls for action from the federal government to address the influx of asylum seekers, many of whom have landed in New York City.
News & Politics
Politics
With asylum-seekers in the spotlight, mayor and council battle over city finances
New York City Council members responded with outrage over the mayor’s requests to fork over discretionary funding.
New York City
Policy
NYC leaders call for money, and a plan, as more migrants arrive from the Mexican border
While buses of migrants arrived in Manhattan, the City Council held a hearing on the city’s response to asylum-seekers
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Immigrant households disproportionately rent-burdened: Report
Nearly 434,000 children in New York City were in households with at least one immigrant parent and experienced rent burden in 2021, according to the Citizens’ Committee for Children analysis.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
New York City opens new emergency center for asylum-seekers in a Midtown hotel
While the tents at Randall’s Island remain far below capacity, the city is opening a new HERRC at the Hotel Wolcott in Manhattan.
Immigration
Politics
Asylum-seekers face legal challenges and backlogs in New York City
A struggling court system and shortage of legal assistance has left some newly arrived migrants floundering in the complicated process of applying for asylum.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Nonprofit receives $100K for emergency migrant relief fund
The Havens Relief Fund Society was among 66 organizations awarded grant funding from the New York Community Trust.
New York City
Policy
Will Biden’s new border policy stop asylum-seekers from coming to NYC? City officials aren’t sure
The flow of asylum-seekers into the city slowed in recent days, but officials say that’s unlikely to be related to the new border policy.
New York City
Politics