NYC to close 13 emergency shelters for asylum seekers by June, says Mayor Adams

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says 13 new emergency shelters are slated to close by June this year.

The shelters serve Caribbean and other asylum seekers across the five boroughs, including Hall Street in Brooklyn, one of the city's largest facilities that currently houses about 3,500 migrants.

Immigration advocates say many of the migrants arriving in New York from the southern border are nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Mr Adams says he's closing the shelters thanks to his administration's successful asylum seeker management strategies and United States federal border policy changes.