Border Czar Tom Homan met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and they discussed the city’s ongoing migrant crisis. (Getty Images)
In response to criticism from his party and the media for cooperating with Trump, Adams said, "They are helping me with the agenda that I stated the previous administration should have been helping me with, and I thank them for helping me with it."
As of Monday, he said, the number of migrants arriving in the city has dramatically dropped from 4,000 to just 350 a month.
VP JD VANCE SPEAKS ON 'FUNDAMENTAL GOAL' OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AT CPAC ADDRESS
"This is what we called for and advocated for, and the American people have communicated, ‘We need to secure our border,'" he said. "There's nothing humane about having individuals into the country with no place to go, no sponsors here, no ability to take care of themselves. And pushing the cost of it onto cities is just wrong."
This decline has allowed the city to finally close another of its major migrant shelters at the historic Roosevelt Hotel.
The hotel, which previously was an upscale tourist attraction, became known for crime and violence by migrant gangs, including the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua, which was just designated a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration.
Police officers take security measures while migrants line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel while waiting for placement in New York Aug. 2, 2023. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
New York City also recently closed several other of its largest migrant shelters, including a tent city shelter at Randall's Island and another at Floyd Bennett Field. Including the Roosevelt Hotel, Adams said the city would be closing a total of 53 shelter sites within one year.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
"We are helping asylum seekers take the next steps in their journeys, and we are saving taxpaying New Yorkers millions of dollars," said Adams.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayor-americas-biggest-city-thanks-trump-crackdown-criminal-immigrants