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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced the closure of the Asylum Seeker Arrival Center at the Roosevelt Hotel, which will wind down operations for the next several months. The hotel, with roughly 1,000 rooms, has been operating as a housing shelter and processing center for illegal immigrant asylum seekers since May 2023 as unlawful border crossings surged under former President Joe Biden.
The Manhattan-based hotel turned illegal immigrant processing center has facilitated the registration of over 173,000 migrants, representing nearly three-quarters of the 232,000 migrants who entered New York City since spring 2022, according to Mayor Adams’s office.
