For months, Abbott has shipped buses filled with border crossers to New York City, which prides itself as the nation’s largest sanctuary jurisdiction for illegal aliens.
Newly issued data, published by the New York Times, reveals the extent to which President Joe Biden’s expansive Catch and Release operation at the United States-Mexico border is attracting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.
New York City’s homeless shelters, for instance, are now housing roughly 4,900 border crossers — most of whom have arrived on Abbott’s migrant buses. Officials clarified to the Timesthat the daily arrival of thousands of border crossers is the main driver of the city’s ballooning sheltered homeless population, which stands at approximately 51,000.
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“The situation is dire,” according to the Times.
For the city’s family homeless shelters, which make up more than half of all shelters, the vacancy rate has fallen to only 0.18 percent, leaving just 19 rooms available. The family shelter system can house over 10,000 families.
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The Times notes that based on present trends, if the pace of arriving border crossers continues, New York City’s family homeless shelter population “would nearly double, to almost 60,000, up from the current 31,000” over the next year.
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Furthermore, if the number of young border crossers arriving in New York City remains constant, more than 10,000 are expected to arrive over the next year and join the city’s family shelter system.
Arriving border crossers are already flocking to Salvation Army locations across the city, as well as soup kitchens. Five soup kitchens have seen also 300 guests a week since the migrant buses began coming to New York City.
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While the city’s homeless shelter system remains overburdened, officials have tried to alleviate the situation by giving away roughly 6,000 luxury hotel rooms to border crossers. The city has further promised to start enrolling no less than 1,000 young border crossers in public schools.
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Shelters for families make up more than half of the city system, and in early June, their vacancy rate, which is supposed to be maintained at 3 percent, fell below 1 percent, according to the Legal Aid Society, which monitors conditions at the shelters. On Thursday, the society said, the vacancy figure was 0.18 percent, or 19 available rooms in the entire system, which holds over 10,000 families.
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The city’s early response to the influx of migrants was marked by weeks of flailing and missteps, deeply at chances with the give-me-your-huddled-masses rhetoric of Mayor Eric Adams. Some families slept at an intake office in the Bronx, in violation of the law. Some were separated by bureaucratic snafus. And advocates announced the city often failed to provide basics like food, diapers and medical attention.
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