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New York City opens tent shelter for bussed-in asylum seekers

Emergency centre aims to house about 500 single men, many of them from Venezuela, amid Republican bussing campaign.

Al Jazeera

The U.S. creates a legal pathway for Venezuelan migrants, but many won't qualify

The Biden administration has announced a new legal pathway to discourage Venezuelan migrants from crossing the border illegally. But many may not qualify because they lack financial sponsors.

WEKU

New Yorkers banned from taking out trash until 8pm as rat numbers surge: ‘This is not Ratatouille’

“The biggest swing that you can take at cleaning up our streets is to shut down the all-night, all-you-can-eat rat buffet,” NYC Sanitation commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

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As NYC struggles to manage the migrant crisis, some New Yorkers open their own homes

NEW YORK — Melanie Van Orden is a volunteer with NYC ICE Watch, a mutual aid group working with the migrants flooding into the city. One night, late, she got a text: A group of migrants was wandering the city looking for a place to stay the night.

Tribune News Service

Mayor Adams releases 2021 tax forms, which appear to contradict NYC financial disclosure

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ most recent tax forms, which he released to the press Thursday night, appear to contradict financial disclosures he made to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board for the 2021 calendar year.

Tribune News Service

Brickbat: You Scratch My Back

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and city Schools Chancellor David Banks have each hired the other's girlfriend for six-figure-salary jobs. Adams named Banks' girlfriend, Sheena Wright, as one of his deputy mayors shortly before he was sworn in last December. Deputy mayors made $251,982 in fiscal year 2021. Banks,…

Reason

Mayor Eric Adams Appoints Dasheeda Dawson As Cannabis NYC Founding Director

NYC Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) Commissioner Kevin D.

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New York City to open second migrant shelter for asylum seekers in Times Square hotel

Row Hotel will house up to 200 families as city urges support for 18,000 people seeking asylum

The Independent UK

Mexico’s president condemns Greg Abbott’s ‘offensive’ migrant busing

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rebukes Republican governors relying on immigration for ‘political, electoral purposes’

The Independent UK

Stefan Bondy: Obi Toppin’s dunks are worth more than just two points

INDIANAPOLIS — There are different schools of thought, often divided by generations. Showmanship or showboating? Insulting or fun? Exhilarating or reckless?

Tribune News Service

NYC homeless shelter population hits all-time high amid cascading migrant crisis

NEW YORK — The city’s homeless shelter population has hit an all-time high as hundreds of Latin American migrants continue to pour into New York every week as part of a crisis that’s driving the local social safety net to the brink of collapse.

Tribune News Service

NYC rat sightings up 71% from same point in 2020 despite mitigation efforts

NEW YORK — New York City rat sighting rates have reached the stRATosphere.

Tribune News Service

Mayor Adams signs bills formalizing NYC’s Times Square as ‘gun-free zone’ despite court setback

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams signed a couple of bills into law Tuesday formalizing Times Square as a “gun-free zone” — even as the designation remains in legal limbo due to a recent ruling from a federal judge in upstate New York.

Tribune News Service

Nearly 2,000 migrants arrived in NYC over weekend as shelter crisis shows no sign of abating

NEW YORK — At least 1,800 Latin American asylum-seekers arrived in the city over the weekend, signaling that the migrant wave is accelerating even as Mayor Eric Adams’ administration scrambles to shelter thousands of desperate travelers already in New York.

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Al Jazeera

NYC mayor declares emergency over migrant buses from Texas

Mayor Eric Adams says 17,000 asylum seekers have been bused into New York City since April, straining resources.

The Independent UK

Mayor declares state of emergency for NYC over migrants

New York City’s mayor has declared a state of emergency over the thousands of migrants being sent from southern border states

The Guardian - US

New York City mayor declares state of emergency over migrant buses

Eric Adams says he expects to spend at least $1bn by end of fiscal year on crisis as Texas governor continues to send migrants

Tribune News Service

Mayor Adams declares state of emergency over NYC migrant crisis, pleas for help from feds, state

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the city’s migrant crisis and pleaded for financial and legislative assistance from the federal government and state lawmakers.

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Reuters

NYC mayor declares state of emergency amid migrant busing crisis

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency on Friday in response to thousands of migrants bused to the city in recent months from the U.S. southern border in a political dispute over border security.

The Texas Tribune

New York City mayor declares state of emergency over busing of migrants from Texas

Mayor Eric Adams said the city needs emergency funding to provide shelter to migrants and other people without housing. He also asked El Paso to stop sending migrants there.

Axios

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declares emergency over migrant buses

The city expects to spend $1 billion to help the asylum seekers by the end of the fiscal year, Adams said.

Reuters

Democrat-led Texas city steps up migrant busing to New York, outpacing Republican effort

The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas' Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S. border security.

The Independent UK

Fears of ‘operational and moral failure’ at New York’s migrant tent city

An emergency shelter will house hundreds of people seeking asylum, including people bused north by Greg Abbott. One site flooded, the contractor built Trump’s border wall, and rights groups warn the plan runs afoul of a right-to-shelter mandate while city shelters are overwhelmed, Alex Woodward reports

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott acknowledges New York City mayor’s office reached out about migrant busing efforts

Abbott previously said Eric Adams’ office had not reached out to him about coordinating migrant arrivals in New York City and faced criticism that he was rebuffing efforts from the mayor to communicate.

The Independent UK

After storms, NYC moving location of planned migrant shelter

A facility to temporarily house migrants being sent to New York City will now be located closer to Manhattan instead of a remote corner of the Bronx

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