NEW YORK — The flood of migrants coming into New York City has slowed to a trickle, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday as he praised President Joe Biden’s “decompression” strategy to lower the number of asylum seekers who’ve strained the city’s social services system.
Adams, who was speaking at an unrelated press conference on the Lower East Side, said the city is now seeing far fewer buses filled with asylum seekers — a stark contrast to the eight to ten busloads the city had been receiving per day prior to the president’s new policy.
“The mayor of El Paso called and said he’s not sending any more buses because of that strategy,” Adams said. “We received, I think, one bus yesterday. Clearly, the decompression strategy is helping New York City, Washington and Chicago. We were receiving the brunt of those buses.”
