Controversy over NYC's use of school gyms to house migrants
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New York City is considering using as many as 20 schools with free-standing gyms to house asylum-seekers, according to Mayor Eric Adams. At least 65,000 asylum-seekers have come through the city so far, including 4,200 last week alone. The city is beyond capacity for its shelter system with over 36,700 migrants housed across 120 locations. Some New York suburbs have rebuked Adams' plan to send migrants to their towns for shelter. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting assistance from federal agencies to house migrants on federal land in New York.
- New York City moving migrants into school gyms: Mayor Adams ABC News
- Parents camp out to protest asylum seekers at Brooklyn schools CBS New York
- NYC officials infuriate locals by sending migrants to school gyms: 'Unfair, unacceptable' Fox News
- Migrants to be housed in 6 more NYC school gyms — outraged parents say plan is 'just insane' New York Post
- NYC housing migrants in public school gyms FOX 5 New York
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