NEW YORK -- With new waves of asylum seekers arriving weekly, New York City started evicting migrants from the shelter system on Wednesday in an attempt to ease the strain the crisis had placed on city finances.The evictions are part of a new policy the city crafted with the Legal Aid Society and homeless advocates that allows migrants to claim a shelter bed for only 30 or 60 days.
'There's a great risk that if the staff at the ticketing center understand that their job is to potentially turn people away, that there are people who don't have anywhere else to go, and they will not have their time extended,' Goldfein said.Officials say about 260 people got eviction notices that will be coming due sometime this week. In the first wave, about 29 applied for extensions and about half were granted.