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Migrants sit in a queue outside of The Roosevelt Hotel that is being used by the city as temporary housing, Monday, July 31, 2023, in New York. Beleaguered by a continuing influx of asylum seekers, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is further tightening shelter rules by limiting adult migrants to just 30 days — to help ease pressures on the city's already struggling shelter system and perhaps dissuade more migrants from coming.(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

New York City further tightens time limit for migrants to move out of shelters

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters at the Treehouse Pub & Eatery, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Bettendorf, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Judge peppers lawyers in prelude to trial of New York’s business fraud lawsuit against Trump

By Michael R. Sisak and Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Emergency responders work the scene of a fatal bus crash, in Wawayanda, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. The charter bus carrying high school students to a band camp hurtled off a New York highway and down an embankment, officials said. (NBC New York via AP)

Bus carrying high school students to band camp crashes, killing 2 and seriously injuring others

By Bobby Caina Calvan and Deepti Hajela - Associated Press

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during a news conference on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Little Havana, a neighborhood in Miami. Florida authorities on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 closed a criminal investigation into fund-raising efforts by Bloomberg to pay off the outstanding fines of thousands of the state's felons seeking to reclaim their voting rights, finding no violations of election law. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, file)

Mike Bloomberg: Shift from oil must be ‘practical,’ praises UAE’s oil leader hosting climate summit

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Immigrants from Venezuela are reflected in a marble wall while taking shelter at the Chicago Police Department's 16th District station on May 1, 2023. Chicago officials have signed a nearly $30 million contract with a private security firm to relocate migrants seeking asylum from police stations and the city’s two airports to winterized camps with massive tents before cold weather arrives. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, FIle)

Chicago officials ink nearly $30M contract with security firm to move migrants to winterized camps

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Immigrants from Venezuela are reflected in a marble wall while taking shelter at the Chicago Police Department's 16th District station on Monday, May 1, 2023. In Chicago, where 13,000 migrants have settled in the last year, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to ask for parole for asylum-seekers, which, they say, would allow him to get around the wait for a work permit. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, FIle)

Biden’s Democratic allies intensify pressure for asylum-seekers to get work permits

By Anthony Izaguirre - Associated Press

Illustration on New York and illegal immigration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Texas has moved the conversation about illegal immigration to New York City

By Greg Sindelar

In this image provided by the Office of the New York Mayor, New York Mayor Eric Adams hosts "Talk with Eric: A Community Conversation," Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, in New York. As tens of thousands of international migrants have arrived in New York City over the past year without jobs or a home, Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul have begged President Joe Biden for one thing: Make it easier for migrants to get work authorization papers quickly. (Benny Polatseck/Office of the New York Mayor via AP, File)

New York Mayor Adams calls out Biden for not meeting with him, helping with migrant crisis

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

US President Joe Biden addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Live Updates: World leaders convene for Day 2 of the UN General Assembly high-level meeting

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Police car. Photo credit: zef art via Shutterstock. ** FILE **

Kilogram of fentanyl found in NYC day care center where 1-year-old boy died of apparent overdose

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Office of the New York Mayor, shows Mayor Eric Adams, left, presenting the Key to the City to hip-hop artist Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York's Times Square, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (Office of the New York Mayor/Caroline Rubinstein-Willis via AP)

New York City mayor gives Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs a key to the city during a ceremony in Times Square

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive to attend a signing ceremony following their talks at The Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

As Biden preps for New York, Xi, Putin and others skipping U.N. General Assembly

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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See-nothing politicians

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York during a news conference, Dec. 30, 2022. New York City officials planned to send some asylum-seekers to an upstate hotel despite fierce resistance from suburban leaders and a judge’s order temporarily blocking the use of another hotel. Adams touched off a furor north of the city by announcing Friday, May 5, 2023, that the city would temporarily send north up to 300 single, adult men to two hotels in suburban Rockland County and neighboring Orange County. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

New York Mayor Eric Adams warns that migrants will ‘destroy New York City’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A large police presence is seen during a protest in the Brooklyn borough of New York, May 30, 2020, in response to the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis. New York City’s police department has agreed to adopt new policies intended to safeguard the rights of protesters as part of a legal settlement stemming from its response to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020. The 44-page agreement, filed Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in Manhattan federal court, requires the nation’s largest police department to deploy fewer officers to most public protests. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York police agree to reform protest tactics in settlement over 2020 response

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Prison bars and a hallway. (txking via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

After slaying, N.Y. county wonders who freed illegal immigrant murder suspect

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, traffic makes it's way across 42nd Street in New York City. One promise of ride-hailing companies was a drop in the number of cars in urban areas and an easing of clogged city streets. But a survey by an urban planning group suggests the opposite: That ride-hailing companies may be pulling riders off buses, subways and bicycles and putting them in cars. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

The Big Apple’s big cash grab

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A line of police cars are parked along a street in Times Square, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, in New York. A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of "courtesy cards" by friends and relatives of his colleagues on the force, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that lets people with a connection to law enforcement avoid traffic tickets. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Migrant woman charged with striking NYPD cop during vehicle seizure

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A look inside Donald Trump’s deposition: Defiance, deflection and the ‘hottest brand in the world’

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Illustration on illegal immigrants and the election by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Illegal immigration: A key campaign issue for the 2024 presidential field

By Cal Thomas