Disastrous immigration policies are crushing New York City with over 10,000 migrants continuing to arrive monthly demanding shelter, meals and services, new statistics show.
Despite the Biden administration claiming it is reducing the number of asylum seekers flooding into the country, figures seen by The Post show no sign of a slowdown.
In the first six months of this year, 66,117 migrants entered the country and gave their destination as New York to the border guards arranging hearings for them in immigration court — more than double the number arriving at the next most popular destination.
That equates to almost 10% of the total 671,721 migrants let into the US so far in 2023, per figures compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, which uses data obtained from the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
Mayor Eric Adams says the city has received over 90,000 migrants in total since spring 2022.
The mayor’s office says 57,200 migrants are still in 194 shelters set up by the city as of this week, leaving 8.4 million NYC taxpayers — just 2.5% of the US population — to foot the bill to feed, shelter and provide for an outsize number of asylum seekers, many of whom are staying in the shelter system for months on end.
The bill for meeting the demands of the crisis is set to reach $4.2 billion according to Adams, who has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for $300 million but received less than half to date, and repeatedly expressed his frustration at the lack of help at the federal level.
Biden has allocated just $142 million in relief aid for the city so far.
“New Yorkers have stepped up tremendously throughout this crisis … Let us be very clear: This is both disappointing and woefully insufficient,” mayoral spokesperson Fabien Levy said in a statement in May.
The second most popular destination within the US for migrants, per immigration court filings, is Los Angeles but it has seen an influx less than half of that of New York in 2023 with 29,883 people.
The Biden administration has repeatedly claimed it has got tough on immigration since the end of Title 42 measures in May and repeats how 45,000 people a month are allowed into the country through its cell app-based CBP One scheme.
However, the data compiled by the TRAC shows a much different picture with 1,989,942 migrants admitted to the country since Biden took office in January 2021.
That number grows significantly when those estimated to have made it over the border illegally and undetected is factored in. That figure is set to top last year’s estimate by the Department of Homeland Security of 600,000, meaning at least 2.6 million migrants have made it into the US under Biden.
Those numbers have skyrocketed in recent months. As Title 42 ended and chaos reigned at the border, the largest number of migrants since at least 2001 were allowed to flood into the US, with 147,783 cases recorded in May 2023, according to TRAC figures.
The Biden administration even touted a 70% drop in border crossings since the end of Title 42, but that’s not borne out by the TRAC data, which recorded 118,520 cases referred to immigration courts across the nation in June – the fifth highest number recorded since 2001.
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The TRAC data monitors the number of new filings with immigration courts for cases in any given month.
These reflect the number of people who have been screened by Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs and Enforcement and let into the country with a Notice To Appear at an immigration court in the county of their final destination.
In New York, the number of immigration cases filed has tripled in the last four years. In one month of 2019 the number surpassed 5,000 cases across the entire state for the first time.
By 2022 between five and seven thousand cases were regularly being filed per month.