NYC tells migrants to go to 'more affordable' cities: 'Resources have been exhausted'

NEW YORK CITY (TND) — New York City will distribute flyers at the southern border warning asylum-seeking migrants against traveling to New York City, local officials announced during a press conference Wednesday.

The flyer, displaying the warnings in both English and Spanish, encourages migrants to find a “more affordable city” and note that migrants “will not be placed in a hotel."

It also explains that “New York City’s resources have been exhausted” and that the city cannot help them obtain work permits.

Updates to asylum seekers: Beware of wrong information on social media and from human traffickers,” the flyer reads. “NYC is one of the most expensive cities in the world. You are better off going to a more affordable city.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said this week that the National Guard would assist migrants already in the state with applying for jobs, stating they “did not come all these thousands of miles just to live in a shelter with hundreds of thousands of others” while blaming Republican leadership for the problem.

The flyer also goes against the city’s decades-old right to shelter rules, which New York City Mayor Eric Adams already tweaked in June by imposing a 60-day limit on shelter stays. The first of those limits finished last week, forcing dozens of migrants to pack their bags and vacate shelters, The New York Times reported.

Adams announced this week that length of time would be shortened to 30 days.

The flyers are the latest attempt by the sanctuary city to quell an overwhelming influx of migrants. Adams previously said the migrants could cost the city $12 billion over the next three years while pleading for help from the Biden administration.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced last week he would abandon the Democratic Party for the way its politics have failed to support major cities.

"American cities need Republicans," Johnson wrote.