via cityandstateny:
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is doubling down on its message to asylum-seekers at the southern border who might be thinking of coming to New York City: You’re better off going somewhere else.
That message is being delivered in an updated set of flyers that the city and its partners will distribute at the border and in other cities, in an effort to “combat misinformation at the border and in cities across the country where people are coming to New York City from,” according to New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom. In some instances, Williams-Isom said, asylum-seekers already in the city are spreading the word to family members that they’ll receive housing if they come to New York, so the city will also distribute these flyers in its own shelters and intake centers.
“We definitely do want to discourage people from coming here, so that we can pretty much deal with the 113,000 people that are in our system right now,” Williams-Isom said, referring to the population already in city shelters, which the city announced actually exceeded 115,200 people as of Sept. 24, including more than 61,400 asylum-seekers.
In July, the city announced that it would begin distributing flyers with a similar message at the southern border, advising asylum-seekers that the city can’t guarantee that it will be able to provide shelter and services, and asking them to consider another city when deciding where to settle in the United States.