New York City has struggled to find places for the more than 107,000 asylum seekers who have flooded into the Big Apple since spring 2022.
Guardian Angels founder and former Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, who is expected to attend the rally on Tuesday, called the “forgotte borough,” the latest battleground in New Yorkers pushback against Mayor Eric Adams’ handling of the crisis. Hundreds have gathered outside the former St. John’s Villa Academy since the city announced plans to start housing migrants there., which closed down and later bought by the city in 2018, to decry bringing asylum seekers into the area.