Here in New York, Mayor Eric Adams on Monday announced the city would be shutting down the Roosevelt Hotel shelter for asylum seekers. The site has housed some 173,000 immigrants since it opened in May 2023 in response to the thousands of asylum seekers who were bused to New York City from the southern border.

Mayor Eric Adams: “We are announcing that the Roosevelt Hotel, which has served as both our asylum arrivals center and a humanitarian emergency response and relief center for nearly two years, will be closing in the coming months.”

The hotel’s closure comes as Adams has promised to shutter dozens of other emergency migrant shelters by June. Adams has been accused of accepting a deal to help enforce Trump’s mass deportation policies in return for the Department of Justice suspending corruption charges against him. On Friday, a New York judge rejected calls from the DOJ to immediately close Adams’s case, but ordered the trial to be delayed indefinitely. Adams on Monday shrugged off mounting demands for New York Governor Kathy Hochul to remove him from office, which Hochul said last week she would not do.

Mayor Eric Adams: “No, I wasn’t concerned about being removed, because I knew I did nothing wrong.”