The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced on Monday that the city will close the arrival center of Asylum Seeker at the Roosevelt Hotel, a site that was the frequent objective of the criticism of Elon Musk and the TUMP administration.
More than 173,000 migrants completed records at the Manhattan hotel since its opening in May 2023, representing almost three quarters of the 232,000 migrants who entered the city from the spring of 2022, the Adams administration reported.
“While we have not finished taking care of those who enter our care, today it marks another milestone in demonstrating the immense progress that we have achieved by converting the corner into an unprecedented international humanitarian effort,” Adams said in a Monday statement.
The mayor added that his administration has “skillfully administered this crisis” and that the Roosevelt Hotel has been “key to allow us to effectively manage our operations.”
In addition to the closing of the arrival center at the hotel, Adams also announced the closure of the emergency response center and humanitarian reliefs located in Roosevelt.
The mayor cited a carelessness of migrant records, as well as the success of migrants who have “sought attention” from the city to take their “next steps on their trips”, how to inspire the movement of closing the central center at the hotel Roosevelt
The Adams administration said that while an average of 4,000 migrants arrived in New York City every week during the “height of the international asylum seekers’ crisis”, the average number of registrants in the city has fallen to the approximately 350 migrants per week in recent months.
“Now, thanks to the solid political decisions of our team, we can announce the closure of this site and help more asylum applicants to take the next steps on their trips while imagining an even brighter future, while saving taxpayers Millions of dollars, “Adams said in a statement.
ADAMS promoted that the hotel closure adds to the plans to close another 53 emergency shelter sites throughout the city in June. The administration cited less than 45,000 migrants currently in the care of the city, falling from a maximum of 69,000 last month.
The mayor’s announcement occurs a few days after the city filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday, trying to claim $ 80 million that was previously authorized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to cover the costs of the Hotels for migrants.
New York City states in the demand that the Trump administration “arrived at an account of the Central Bank of New York City (the” city “) and obtained” money, according to judicial documents.
“He took these funds from the city without any anticipated notice that he would do so and without communicating any decision or justification to the city,” the lawsuit said.
The $ 80 million included a subsidy of $ 59 million plus an award of $ 21.5 million for the costs of the city to maintain its system of asylum applicants that were granted during the mandate of former President Joe Biden, but they were not disbursed Until this month, according to demand.
Elon Musk, the Trump billionaire advisor who operates the Government Efficiency Department (Doge), said in an X position earlier this month that the funds “violated the law.”
“The @Doge team has just discovered that FEMA sent $ 59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants,” Musk said in the publication on February 10. “Send this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the president’s executive order.”
The head of the National Security Department, Kristi Noem, who was also appointed in the city’s demand, said on February 12 that he had “recovered the full payment that FEMA Deep State activists unilaterally gave New York’s migrant hotels ”
Noem said Roosevelt Hotel served as a “basis for operations” for Aragua Train and was “accustomed to house Laken Riley’s murderer.”
“Mark my words: there will not be a single penny that goes against the interest and security of the US people,” Noem said in the publication in X.
The clash between ADAMS and the Trump administration occurs after Adams has repeated its support for the tsar tsar of Trump Tom Tom Tom Homan since he met Homin in December.
Homan met with Adams again on February 14, saying in an “Fox and Friends” interview later that day he would make sure Adams followed his promises.
“If it does not arrive,” Homan said in the interview, “I will return to New York City and we will not be sitting on the couch. I will be in his office, in his butt saying: ‘Where the hell is the agreement we reached?’ ”
