New York City Mayor Eric Adams will soon begin housing border crossers and illegal aliens in a previously closed Harlem jail as the city has had to deal with the arrival of more than 70,000 migrants since the spring of last year.
to transform the old Lincoln Correctional Center — a 10,000 square foot facility — in Harlem into a migrant shelter.Adams’ office said in a statement that the jail would become a migrant “emergency respite center” and that no border crossers and illegal aliens would be held in actual jail cells.