Offered tickets to depart NYC when forced to leave shelters, only 2% of adult migrants accept
Fewer than 30 adult migrants per day are typically accepting a city-offered bus or plane ticket out of New York City, and hundreds more are ending up with no shelter bed to sleep in for the night, newly released data shows.But data obtained by Gothamist through a Freedom of Information Law request shows that on average, just 2% of adult migrants maxing out their shelter limits each day are leaving the city.
City officials said they’ve spent $7.6 million to “reticket” about 28,500 migrants, or buy them bus or plane tickets to other cities or states. But it’s unclear how much of that was spent on adult migrants at St. Brigid, where data shows more than 2,200 have accepted rides elsewhere since Dec. 17. Molly Schaeffer, interim director of the city's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations, told city councilmembers earlier this month that most reticketing is taking place at the Roosevelt Hotel, the city’s main intake center where newly arrived migrants initially request shelter. She said many arriving migrants ask for tickets back to Texas or other states where they may have family or friends.
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