FEMA and Federal Funds Fall Short in Supporting Migrant Crisis and Emergency Relief

New York City will receive only $30 million out of the $350 million it applied for from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to manage the asylum-seeker crisis. Mayor Eric Adams criticized the decision, calling it "woefully insufficient." The city has been sheltering, feeding, and supporting more than 60,000 asylum-seekers in the last year. Adams also announced a new program to send asylum-seekers to locations outside the five boroughs. The program will do little to solve the city's problems, as tens of thousands of migrants are expected to enter the country and eventually make their way to cities including New York.