Asylum-seekers face legal challenges and backlogs in New York City

Following months of a rapid influx of asylum-seekers to New York City – many fleeing political persecution in Venezuela, and many bused here from Texas and Arizona – the inflow of people at the southern border appears to be slowing under policy changes by the Biden administration.

But with more than 21,000 new arrivals in New York since the spring, the stream of migrants seeking asylum status at New York City’s immigration courts is as heavy as it has been for months.

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