
NEW YORK CITY - Around 170,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since 2022, according to figures from December. Since then, the city has been struggling to accommodate the seemingly ever-increasing influx of people, a situation that has overwhelmed the city's shelter systema. In October, Mayor Eric Adams even went to Latin America to tell migrants to stop coming.
"We don't want people to take this dangerous trek to come to New York City, which is out of room," he said in a statement in October. "We don't have unlimited supplies."