Kristian Gonzalez Perez and his wife Katiuska Leal Moreno with their two children walk towards a bus that would eventually take them to New York City .
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(New York, NY) – There’s been a steady decline in the number of migrants arriving in New York City over recent months. Deputy Mayor Anne Williams Isom says 900 arrived last week, the first time in a while the number has been under 1,000.
Between 11-hundred and 15-hundred asylum seekers have been arriving in the city every week since March, a big dip from the nearly four thousand weekly arrivals in January. However, the number of migrants in shelters has only dropped a bit and sits at around 64-thousand. City officials say they will focus on resettlement for migrant families and then that number should drop further.
