New York City says it has reached its capacity for asylum seekers entering the five boroughs as it expects 1,000 more migrants to arrive after border restrictions are lifted early Friday.
In response, Mayor Eric Adams suspended parts of the city’s “right-to-shelter” law and is relocating a few hundred migrants upstate.
Brendan McGuire, chief counsel to Adams, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Thursday.
The city has “reached a breaking point in this crisis,” McGuire said. “The city has really been heroic in its response, not just City Hall, but throughout dozens of city agencies.”
McGuire said that thousands of city employees have treated migrants in the city with the “utmost priority, and compassion and respect.”
“And now we’re at a place where we have no more room,” he said.
McGuire said the city has recently cared for more 65,000 asylum seekers, with 40,000 asylum seekers currently in the system.
“As the mayor has said repeatedly, we need help and we need help at all levels,” he said.