“I think we have seen some improvement in the amount of people who have been coming in through our front door based on what’s happening down at the border,
Biden took action last month to crack down on illegal border crossings, a top city official said Tuesday.in early June to temporarily suspend asylum claims for those who cross the border illegally between ports of entry. Biden’s executive order, which kicks in when the average number of daily crossings over a 7-day period exceeds 2,500 based on the executive action that the president has taken,” Williams-Isom said, during Mayor Eric Adams ’ weekly City Hall press conference.
However, there are still 64,000 newcomers in the city’s care out of the over 200,000 who have arrived in the five boroughs over the past two-plus years, Williams-Isom said. While the number of migrants living in city shelters has hovered around 64,000 since the beginning of the year, the deputy mayor said that figure is “not where we want to be.”
“With the largest population in our care being families with children, I think we really have to focus on resettlement in order to see that population going down,” she said. “Sixty four thousand cannot be our baseline, that is not sustainable.” The administration has taken its own measures to lower the number of new arrivals in its care — most notably, byfor single adult migrants and 60-day limits for migrant families. Administration officials have insisted the policies have been instrumental in lowering the city’s shelter system census.to help new arrivals secure stable housing and do not track where they end up once they leave city shelters.
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