New York City mayor declares state of emergency over busing of migrants from Texas

Dozens of migrants, including several family units, line up to board a New York City-bound bus inside a shelter in El Paso on Aug. 31, 2022. (Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune)

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday declared a state of emergency to help handle an influx of asylum-seekers being bused into the city from Texas and other states who are estimated to have increased the number of people in the city’s shelters to a record high.

New York City had more than 61,000 individuals — almost 20,000 of them children — in its shelter system, including homeless New Yorkers and thousands of asylum-seekers who were bused there from all over the country, Adams said, according to prepared remarks published by his office.