The Latest Breaking News from Eric Adams

NEW YORK — The city’s homeless shelter population has hit an all-time high as hundreds of Latin American migrants continue to pour into New York every week as part of a crisis that’s driving the local social safety net to the brink of collapse.

NEW YORK — New York City rat sighting rates have reached the stRATosphere.

Eric Adams says he expects to spend at least $1bn by end of fiscal year on crisis as Texas governor continues to send migrants

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the city’s migrant crisis and pleaded for financial and legislative assistance from the federal government and state lawmakers.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency on Friday in response to thousands of migrants bused to the city in recent months from the U.S. southern border in a political dispute over border security.

Mayor Eric Adams said the city needs emergency funding to provide shelter to migrants and other people without housing. He also asked El Paso to stop sending migrants there.

The city expects to spend $1 billion to help the asylum seekers by the end of the fiscal year, Adams said.

The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas' Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S. border security.

An emergency shelter will house hundreds of people seeking asylum, including people bused north by Greg Abbott. One site flooded, the contractor built Trump’s border wall, and rights groups warn the plan runs afoul of a right-to-shelter mandate while city shelters are overwhelmed, Alex Woodward reports