Migrants Accused of Crimes Still Eligible for Taxpayer-Funded NYC Shelters

Getting arrested in New York City doesn’t bar migrants from taxpayer-funded shelters, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration admitted Tuesday.

“We don’t say that [you] can’t come back into the shelter because you’ve gotten arrested,” said Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom during Adams’ weekly off-topic press conference in City Hall.

The revelation followed a Post report that found migrants have been flooding the criminal-justice system, with one Manhattan cop estimated that “about 75%” of arrests in Midtown are migrants, mostly for cases involving robberies, assaults, domestic incidents and selling counterfeit items.

“I’m sure that there’s a lot of arrests that have come from a lot of different groups that come here, especially groups that might not be able to work,” Williams-Isom added.

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