NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams says that 13 new emergency shelters serving Caribbean and other asylum seekers across the five boroughs, including Hall Street in Brooklyn, one of the city’s largest facilities that currently houses about 3,500 migrants, are slated to close by June 2025. Immigration advocates say many of the migrants arriving in New York from the southern border are nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Adams said he’s closing the shelters thanks to his administration’s successful asylum seeker management strategies and United States federal border policy changes the city advocated for that have continued to drive down the number of people in the city’s care for 27 straight weeks and reduce costs by nearly USD 2.8 billion over three fiscal years.
The mayor said the new closures in “oversaturated” areas of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens will result in a capacity reduction of about 10,000 beds for Caribbean and other migrants in the coming months. Last month, Adams announced 25 additional sites that would be closing by March 2025, including the Floyd Bennett Field and Randall’s Island Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers. (Jamaica Gleaner)