New York City has taken in 95,000 migrants in 2023 — more than twice as many as LA, Miami, Houston
New York City continues to bear the brunt of the nation’s migrant crisis and has admitted 95,000 migrants so far in 2023.
The city has taken in more than twice as many migrants as locations in Texas, California and Florida since Title 42 was lifted in May.
Between June and September, 41,277 migrants listed NYC as their destination when coming over the border were given Notices to Appear (NTA) before an immigration court in the city, according to figures from Syracuse University’s TRAC immigration database.
The Big Apple’s numbers dwarfed its closest runners up — 15,416 listed Houston as their destination, 15,329 said they were heading to Los Angeles County and 11,081 were on their way to Miami-Dade County in the same time period.
NTAs are issued to people apprehended trying to cross the border illegally, and summon them to appear before a judge who will determine whether they can stay in the US or be deported.
They provide an accurate picture of the number of migrants that have been allowed into the country.
All were migrants who are released into the US legally to pursue asylum claims are given an NTA.
The data compiled for the TRAC database shows a full picture of who is coming into the country and where they are headed.
Exasperated New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said this week the city can’t handle any more migrants, saying the Big Apple is “at capacity”.
She said: “We have to let people know that if you’re thinking of coming to New York, we are truly out of space.”
The migrant crisis exploded over the summer after Title 42 — a COVID-era law used by the Trump administration to keep people from carrying the virus across the border which was effectively used to keep migrants from entering the country — was finally lifted after initially being extended by President Joe Biden.
Title 42 merely stemmed the tide while it remained in place — since 2022 New York City has been the landing-place for a constant stream of migrants, with more than more than 116,000 being taken in since spring of that year, according to City Hall.
Of those individuals, 95,000 have arrived since January 2023 alone, numbers from TRAC show.
There are currently over 60,400 migrants currently in the care of the city, officials told The Post, across 210 sites including 17 large scale humanitarian centers opened to house the migrants.
Those tens of thousands of people have already cost the city about $2 billion, Mayor Eric Adams said this week, with many more billions in expenses expected to pile up in the near future.
“This beautiful city that’s the economic engine of the entire country is being saddled with a $2 billion that we spent already, $5 billion we’re going to spend in this fiscal crisis, $12 billion in the next two budgetary cycles,” Adams told reporters Tuesday.
The mayor has been imploring Biden to provide the city with significant aid to handle to crisis.
Despite being in the city for three days during a visit to the United Nations this week, Biden failed to meet with Adams or even mention the migrant crisis publicly.
“New York doesn’t deserve this, the asylum seekers don’t deserve this,” Adams continued.
“And so while he’s here, I think that they should really reflect on, New York City has done its part.”
