Half of NYC hotel rooms occupied by asylum seekers, according to Mayor Eric Adams

WASHINGTON (TND) — New York City’s iconic Roosevelt Hotel is just the latest destination for migrants being sent to the city from Texas.

“We are busing people who the Biden administration has allowed into those communities into sanctuary cities across the United States," Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said during a news conference Friday.

Asylum seekers now occupy half of New York City’s hotel rooms, according to Mayor Eric Adams.

"This is what we were trying to prevent. We were trying to prevent this," he said in a news conference Thursday.

Instead, the buses have continued to arrive.

The city has also been using standalone school gymnasiums to house migrants, sparking protests, including from the students themselves, though some have started to be relocated.

Multiple counties around New York State are now using emergency orders trying to block migrants from being sent to their regions.

"We've got no place to put them, to be able to humanely take care of these people in the rural areas, or, where are we gonna put them in a barn or something? I mean, that's not right," said Jack Welch, chief administrative officer for Orleans County.

Meanwhile, other New Yorkers are stepping up and show compassion with donations to help those in desperate situations.

"I feel like we have to be welcoming. I don’t think they’re taking our jobs. I think they add to our culture," one woman said.

In recent days, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both the House and Senate have introduced legislation they call a short-term solution to extend the authorization for immediate expulsion of migrants, essentially resurrecting the authorities of Title 42 as some other lawmakers argue laws are bring broken by letting so many people enter this country.

“I think we have to separate true asylum seekers - people who are escaping a violent regime who are about to have themselves or their families suffer real harm and traditional economic migrants who are taking advantage is what is effectively an asylum loophole in our country," said Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.

Regardless of the debate in Washington, migrants continue to flee devastating circumstances, overwhelming our southern border, though since the end of Title 42 the number of those crossing has decreased.