Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson. I'm the editor of City

Journal. Joining me on the show

today is Nicole Jelineas, who's been on many times. Nicole is a senior fellow of the Manhattan

Institute. She's a longtime contributing editor of City Journal, and she's a columnist for the New York

Post. She writes often on urban economics, finance. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, and other publications.

She's the author of After the Fall, Saving Capitalism from Wall Street and Washington.

Today, we're going to discuss New York City's current crisis, which is a migrant crisis, which he has written about

in City Journal and for the Post. So, Nicole, thanks very much for joining us. Good afternoon,

Brian. Thanks for having me on again. So, you know, just to set the context, under President Biden, the border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border

have reached record highs, I think. In the past two years, almost two million people have

been released into the United States to await court dates for asylum claims.

And some of these hearings are scheduled out as far as 2035, you note, in your recent piece in city journal.

So last year, you know, border state governors began busing migrants to so-called sanctuary cities throughout the country

among those cities, New York. So how many migrants have entered New York City so far?

And, you know, is that rate accelerating?

Sure. As the city puts it, we've had about 60,000 migrant entries.

And right now, as we speak, about 40,000 are what they say under the care of the city,

meaning 40,000 people, staying in a hotel room that the city has procured at the

city's expense or staying in a traditional homeless shelter or congregate shelter.

So that close to 40,000, would make up half of the city's homeless shelter residents right now.

The homeless shelter population is breaking new records every day

because of the migrant crisis. Now, of course, New York has had undocumented immigration for decades,

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