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The number of migrants coming to the Big Apple is expected
to snowball with the lifting of Title 42 this week – with 10 to 101,235
15 busloads of asylum seekers set to arrive in the next two
days, according to dire warnings issued by Mayor Eric
Adams and City Hall on Sunday.
In an email blast sent to City Council members and their
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“Please be advised that due to the lifting of Title 42 later this
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week, the City is expecting a higher amount of asylum
seeker buses beginning today with 2 buses today and 10-15
more expected in the next two days,” City Hall said in the
message obtained by The Post.

“We have diligently advocated for support from our Federal & State partners as we cannot continue to
address this issue alone,” it said.
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City officials expect over 1,000 new arrivals each week once the pandemic-related immigration restriction about mysterious man 'Adam' hours
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ends Wednesday, Adams said in a statement released later on Sunday. The Trump-era order, known as
Title 42, allowed border patrol to quickly expel migrants who entered the country illegally.
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“We’ve already received more than 31,000 asylum seekers into our city, and currently have open 60
emergency shelters, four humanitarian relief centers, and two welcome centers,” Hizzoner said in the
statement.

“We have been told in no uncertain terms that, beginning today, we should expect an influx of busses
coming from the border and that more than 1,000 additional asylum seekers will arrive in New York City
every week.”
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“Our requests for assistance have been mostly ignored. And while the New York federal delegation has
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“This can’t continue. With the expiration of Title 42 just days away, we need the federal government —
both in the administration and in Congress — to share their plans to move asylum seekers to other cities,
to allow asylum seekers to work, and to send aid to the cities that have borne the brunt of this crisis.”

Some 31,000 migrants have been sent to New York since the spring, and the government has placed
21,400 of them into its overflowing shelter system, according to city data released last Monday. Additional
buses of migrants arrived Sunday, Adams’ spokesman Fabien Levy told The Post.

Migrants from Central and South America are transported to an aid center after being dropped off in Washington, DC on
September 15, 2022.
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An “anxious” Zoom conference call was held among city officials about the pending situation last week as
Adams publicly acknowledged he was worried about an influx Thursday, The Post previously reported .

The City Council has planned two days of hearings — on Monday and Tuesday — to address the crisis.

Local Democrats and Republicans alike panned Democratic-controlled DC for leaving New York in the
lurch.

“The President’s failure means that less money will go to our parks, schools, hospitals, and anything else
you can imagine. A billion dollars is a lot of money,” said City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-
Island).

Added Council Member Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), “Is anyone in Washington listening? I have no idea
what they are waiting for. Do we need to beg?”

“With the city’s shelter system bursting at the seams, a looming financial crisis, and mass exodus of
taxpayers, New Yorkers cannot absorb more asylum seekers,” Queens Council Member Robert Holden, a
Democrat, told The Post.

“We cannot and should not further burden taxpayers for the federal government’s failure to handle this
crisis. President Biden and the US Congress must resolve this problem at the border.”

Then-President Donald Trump instituted Title 42 in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic to restrict
immigrants who may have been infected with the coronavirus from coming into the US.

Under Title 42, law enforcement officials have removed 2.5 million migrants apprehended at the border,
according to government statistics.

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a bid from Republican-led states to suspend a lower court’s
ruling in November that will allow the program to expire on Dec 21.

The Department of Homeland Security said last week the US was not ready “to handle the current volume
of migration nor the increased volume we expect over the coming weeks and months.”

The agency had previously estimated the southern border could see up to 18,000 additional migrants a
day when the measure ended up from about 7,500 a day, according to the most recent count .

Seventeen migrants, mostly form Venezula and Honduras, who have been housed at the Bellevue Homeless Shelter are
loaded onto a yellow school bus to be relocated to a shelter in Brooklyn.
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A surge of migrants at the El Paso crossing leading up to the end of the measure had already led the
border city to declare a state of emergency Saturday, as asylum seekers were left to fend for themselves
on the streets as shelters were overrun.

DHS had asked Congress for $3 billion in funds to fight the surge, and the city’s federal funding request,
which came as it faced $2.9 billion budget deficit , was being reviewed by FEMA officials.

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Nearly 30,000 refugees were granted asylum in 2020, before Title 42 was enacted. The number of
migrants accepted in the next year plummeted to 11,840, according to DHS statistics .

Title 42 was unevenly enforced on asylum seekers from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and
Mexico, because Mexico allows the US to send them back across the border.

The measure was less likely to be applied to Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans due to difficult
diplomatic relations with their countries.

The Biden administration had applied the policy to single adults or families, not children traveling alone.
Anyone who steps foot in the country to escape violence or political persecution is eligible to apply for
asylum under US and international law.

Additional reporting by Haley Brown

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