More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2020. A good number of them—as many as eight busloads a day—were sent north from the southern border by Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott.
Each weekday morning, commuters stream from Grand Central Terminal to begin another day at the center of the biggest and richest city in America.
“WELCOME TO THE ARRIVAL CENTER,” reads a smudged message on a whiteboard propped outside the hotel’s main entrance. Last Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams met with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose idea of assistance was to offer to send a single staff member to New York. That paltry gesture seemed all the more insulting as Adams inspected the scene outside the Roosevelt Hotel on Saturday and again on Sunday.“It’s not going to get any better,” he said at a press conference on Monday. “From this moment on, it’s downhill. There is no more room.
The facility is being run in conjunction with DocGo, which was hired by the city for COVID testing and vaccination services during the pandemic.has reported that the company now has a $432 million contract to process migrants and bus them elsewhere, much as Abbott did, though within the state and without partisan political intent. The sidewalk was nonetheless crowded with people who had slept there for another night.
“New York is still better I think,” he said. “The only thing it misses is a place to sleep. Because we cannot sleep on the street, as it's tough.”
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