On Thursday, advocates marched in solidarity with migrants from Herald Square to the Roosevelt Hotel migrant intake center.

“We’re here to say that immigrants are here to build this country,” Caleb Soto, workers’ rights director of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, said.

Protesters demand the Biden administration to reverse a recent executive order announced on Tuesday, which aims to limit the number of asylum seekers coming through the southern border.

The order will bar migrants who cross the border illegally from seeking asylum.

The executive order goes into effect when the number of daily illegal crossings hit 2,500 or more per day.

The last time it was below that number was in January 2021.

“This message is really also to our own community that we need to join and we need to fight back,” Nadia Marin-Molina, the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said.

Marin-Molina’s advocacy group is one of several groups that have come out against the executive order.

The group hosted Thursday’s protest, which drew a few hundred people.

“None of these politicians are going to do anything unless they’re pushed to,” Marin-Molina said.

Some politicians, like Mayor Eric Adams, support the order.

“Whatever could be done to slow the flow, give us the resources, allow people to work. I’m all for [it],” Adams said Tuesday at his weekly press conference.

According to city officials, the influx of migrants has stretched the city’s resources.

More than 200,000 asylum seekers have come to the city since spring 2022, officials said. Meanwhile 65,000 of them are still in the city’s care.

The city said it’s spent $1 billion feeding and housing migrant arrivals.

Though the message of an overburdened system is something, some advocates say is now being used as a political football.

“It’s not possible to say New York City is somehow the greatest city in the world, and say we have to wall it off to certain people,” Soto said.

Order continues following two weeks after there are seven consecutive days of less than 1,500 daily encounters.