NYC Migrant Crisis News

A migrant shelter resident reviews a notice from Customs and Border Patrol warning them to leave the country within seven days.

Migrants in City Shelters Make Tough Decisions as Feds Warn: ‘It Is Time for You to Leave’

April 17, 2025, 2:02 p.m.April 17, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Countless residents of city shelters, including many who had been here lawfully until the Trump istration changed the rules, were told to self-deport within a week or take their chances.

Asylum Seeker Operations director Molly Schaeffer, left, and Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs Manuel Castro prepare to testify at a City Council budget hearing.

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NYC Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Muted on Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

March 6, 2025, 5:31 p.m.March 19, 2025, 2:56 p.m.

Questioned by Council , Manuel Castro refused to criticize the president and wouldn’t say if City Hall had warned him to stay quiet.

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NYC Closing Roosevelt Hotel Migrant Welcome Center

Feb. 24, 2025, 3:08 p.m.Feb. 24, 2025, 3:08 p.m.

The Roosevelt Hotel, which became a symbol of the city’s migrant crisis, will close by the end of June in the latest planned shut-down of the city’s large-scale emergency migrant shelters.

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Trump ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan to Meet with Mayor Adams, Turning Up Heat on Sanctuary City Status

Feb. 12, 2025, 7:03 p.m.Feb. 12, 2025, 7:22 p.m.

It's a high-stakes meeting for the mayor that comes just after Trump’s Justice Department instructed prosecutors to drop their criminal case against him.

Elieser, 24, and Bryan, 22, wait for another migrant they befriended along their journey from Venezuela to El Paso, TX outside of the American Red Cross building at 520 W 49th St on Friday morning, September 16, 2022.

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Venezuelans and City Bureaucrats Scramble for Next Steps After Trump Yanks Protected Status

Jan. 31, 2025, 12:48 p.m.Feb. 2, 2025, 7:58 p.m.

At a help center in Manhattan, people seeking to renew paperwork get myriad answers on what to do now.

A group of migrant students wait for a bus across from the Stewart Hotel in Midtown on the way to school.

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Deportation Fears Keep Migrant Kids Out of School as ‘Everyone Is Scared’

Jan. 24, 2025, 4:00 p.m.Jan. 24, 2025, 4:20 p.m.

On high alert after President Donald Trump's inauguration this week and worried about his promise to fast-track deportations, scores of immigrant families kept kids home.

Jehinzo Gonzalez and Breymi Amador leave with their children the Floyd Bennett migrant shelter after getting an eviction notice.

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Migrant Families Begin Leaving Floyd Bennett Field in Confusion and Relief

Dec. 23, 2024, 2:52 p.m.Dec. 23, 2024, 2:52 p.m.

All residents of the Brooklyn tent shelter complex are slated to depart by Jan. 15. Some have been reassigned in recent days, with others still eager to leave the tent encampment.

Immigration

Mayor Adams on Trump Border Czar: ‘We Have the Same Desire’

Dec. 12, 2024, 5:54 p.m.Dec. 12, 2024, 5:54 p.m.

After an hour-long meeting, Adams said he and Tom Homan want to go after undocumented immigrants who commit “repeated, violent acts.”

A group of migrants run toward a family shelter at Floyd Bennett Field as a rainstorm descended on the city, Jan. 9, 2024.

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NYC Will Empty Floyd Bennett Field Migrant Shelter Before Trump Inauguration

Dec. 10, 2024, 9:37 a.m.Dec. 10, 2024, 10:08 a.m.

The Brooklyn facility is on a list of 25 the Adams stration says it closed in recent weeks or plans to close before the end of March, as the number of migrants in shelters continues to decline.

National Guard seen through the glass door of the Roosevelt Hotel

Immigration

City Officials Race to Get National Guard Out of Migrant Shelters

Dec. 4, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 3, 2024, 5:57 p.m.

Mayor Eric Adams says he hopes to meet with president-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar.” But meanwhile his team is getting government troops away from immigrants vulnerable to deportation.

Migrant Crisis

Migrants in City Shelters Make Tough Decisions as Feds Warn: ‘It Is Time for You to Leave’

NYC Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Muted on Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

NYC Closing Roosevelt Hotel Migrant Welcome Center

Trump ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan to Meet with Mayor Adams, Turning Up Heat on Sanctuary City Status

Venezuelans and City Bureaucrats Scramble for Next Steps After Trump Yanks Protected Status

Deportation Fears Keep Migrant Kids Out of School as ‘Everyone Is Scared’

Migrant Families Begin Leaving Floyd Bennett Field in Confusion and Relief

Mayor Adams on Trump Border Czar: ‘We Have the Same Desire’

NYC Will Empty Floyd Bennett Field Migrant Shelter Before Trump Inauguration

City Officials Race to Get National Guard Out of Migrant Shelters

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