NEW YORK — Some volunteers on the front lines of New York City’s migrant crisis will not be welcome at a 24/7 arrival center for asylum seekers that Mayor Eric Adams’ administration plans to open, the Daily News has learned.
The volunteers in question — many of whom have been openly critical of aspects of Adams’ handling of the crisis — were told by members of the mayor’s team in a Monday night briefing that they cannot help out at the soon-to-launch arrival center, said Power Malu, the founder of Artists Athletes Activists.
“We asked twice, ‘What about organizations like us?’ But we were told that this is about the mayor coming up with a plan,” said Malu, whose group is among a network of mutual aid organizations that have since last spring assisted migrants at the Port Authority Bus Terminal upon their arrival from border states like Texas.
