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Asylum Seeker Resource Navigation Center Opens In NYC

Migrants listen to Mexican immigration officers in a makeshift migrant camp.
Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR
Migrants listen to Mexican immigration officers in a makeshift migrant camp.

New York City is opening an Asylum Seeker Resource Navigation Center with migrants continuing to come to the Big Apple.

Catholic Charities will operate this new center through a city contract. Mayor Eric Adams says it will be the hub for asylum seekers to access help in guiding them to city services and to integrate them with New York.

“It doesn’t matter if you came here on the Mayflower or on a bus at the Port Authority. You deserve the dignity and respect that this city continues to show.”

The mayor says the city may have to open more emergency shelters with four to six buses of migrants coming every day to the city from Texas. About 11 thousand have entered the city the last few months.