It's the Brian Lairn Show.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Tiffany Hansen in for Brian today.

Now's time for our weekly reporters.

Ask the Mayor segment, which we hold on Wednesdays the day after the mayor hosts his off-topic

press conference for the media. Joining us to talk about the biggest issues concerning City Hall

this week is Gothamist and WNYC reporter Elizabeth Kim. Hi, Liz. Hi, Tiffany. So we've been talking a lot

this hour about immigration, President Biden's executive action. So why don't we just start there? The city has seen roughly 4,000 migrants seeking asylum arrive each month of late. That's according to the mayor. That number includes only people seeking services from the city.

What I'm wondering is, will, do you think, do you think that that executive action will actually have any

impact on the number of migrants coming into New York City specifically?

And has the Adams administration

said anything one way or the other, whether they think that will have any impact?

They are expecting it to have an impact, and they are expecting that this will decrease the number of people who have been coming in.

Just to give you a picture, this week, the past week,

they've counted about 1,200 migrants coming in. Now, that seems like a lot, but it's actually not

the high. It's been as high as 4,000. So the numbers, per week, that's per week. So the numbers have been coming down. And a lot of that is due to what's been going on in Mexico. And that's been reported by people who have been following the border. And the president, President Biden asking Mexico to take a tougher stance and try to divert some of the asylum seekers

from coming into the U.S. So yes, so this is a huge number that should have an impact on the

number of asylum seekers in New York City. With that said, though, I think it's important to note

that asylum seekers aren't just coming from Latin America.

They're not just coming from across the border.

We have seen Africans.

We have seen Asians.

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