NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — The influx of migrants from the southern U.S. to New York City and elsewhere in the Northeast has put the spotlight on the strain it puts on social services.
Time and again, migrants are turned away from the border only to come back.
Muzaffar Chishti, with the Migration Policy Institute at New York University School of Law, said the asylum system is broken.
"What we should do with the asylum seekers at the border, which is where the crisis is, [is] have their claims done by an asylum officer, not a judge," he said.
Tension at the border is simmering.
"This is a toxic mix of economic and political circumstances," he added, noting that the politics are untenable.
New York City has received 11,000 migrants since May.
It shouldn't be a problem just for the city, according to Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, president of Catholic Charities of New York.
"We are tremendously concerned about the strain and the resources, and that's why we need the country as a whole to step up," Sullivan said.
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