New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Wednesday that the city will open a seventh Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center (HERC) in yet another high-end hotel to address the ongoing illegal immigrant crisis there.
The latest will be located at the three-star Wingate by Wyndham hotel in Long Island City, Queens, which will provide all of its 144 rooms on 16 floors to assist illegal immigrant families with children, according to a City of New York statement released on Feb. 15.
“New York City is caring for more asylum seekers than any other city in the United States,” Adams said in the statement. “This seventh humanitarian relief center will help us continue to do that work.”…