Three New York City resource centers that help migrants apply for asylum, work permits and other immigration programs will close next month, according to an announcement from the Adams administration on Friday.
The closures come as the number of new arrivals continues to decline amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, after they started dropping off when former President Joe Biden restricted border crossings. But the city is still caring for 38,000 migrants in its shelter system, according a City Hall spokesperson.
City officials blamed the closure of the facilities — one based at the Red Cross headquarters on the West Side, another in Times Square, and a third at a migrant shelter in the Bronx — on the lack of continued state funding for migrant services. Gov. Kathy Hochul has committed more than $4 billion to the city in recent years, but she recently denied Mayor Eric Adams’s request for another $1 billion…