City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday called Mayor Eric Adams’ action an “arbitrary and capricious suspension” of city law.
administration and the council in the response to over 61,000 mostly Latin American migrants who’ve arrived here since April 2022.
Earlier in the day, at an unrelated press conference, Mayor Adams defended his decision to pass the executive order, arguing the city is mostly out of space for sheltering migrants and must temporarily alter the right to shelter law to give itself more flexibility in housing them. In response to criticisms from the Legal Aid Society, among others, that children shouldn’t be placed in congregate facilities, Mayor Adams said that while “our desire isn’t to put families in dormitory settings,” it’s “unrealistic” to follow a rule that every family must have access to a bathroom and kitchen.
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