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NEW YORK (77WABC) — New York City officials are urgently seeking another 5,000 rooms in Big Apple hotels to house migrants being sent to NYC from Texas by Governor Greg Abbott.
Texas and Arizona are overrun with record numbers of migrants due to the open border policy under the Biden administration. There is no price tag attached to the request that was released Wednesday under the emergency contracting powers invoked by NYC mayor Eric Adams.
The new request for providers to secure thousands of rooms in hotels across the city is in addition to a plan to house 600 families at the row in Times Square, a luxury hotel on 8th Avenue. If fully implemented, it would bring the number of hotel rooms rented for migrants in the city shelter system up to nearly 6,000.
Adams accused Abbott and Arizona governor Doug Ducey of shipping the migrants to New York without telling local officials, claims that both denied at the time.
