NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has since last week reported a steady increase in migrant arrivals — even as volunteers welcoming the desperate travelers to New York City say they’re not seeing a massive influx amid a drop in U.S. southern border crossings.
Molly Schaeffer, Adams’ director of asylum-seekers operations, said in a private phone briefing Thursday with local lawmakers that more than 900 migrants arrived this past Monday alone, according to a recording of the call obtained by the New York Daily News. That came on top of roughly 4,300 migrants Schaeffer said arrived last week.
But volunteers who have spent months greeting migrants at the city’s ports of entry say the administration’s numbers don’t jibe with what they’re seeing on the ground.
