Three New York City boroughs lost nearly 80,000 residents who moved in last year, according to demographic estimates released Thursday, but city officials think those numbers don’t reflect the flow of asylum seekers coming to town. city.
The city rented out entire hotels to house some of the tens of thousands of migrants who arrived in New York City last year, and also set up cots in schools and temporarily housed people in tents, at a cruise ship terminal and in the old building of a police academy.
Up to 50,000 people living in city shelters were missed, according to city officials, who plan to challenge the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 population estimates.
The three boroughs representing the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx lost 28,300, 26,300 and 25,300 people respectively last year, according to estimates. Although births exceeded deaths, and although people from outside moved to those counties, these factors did not exceed the departure of residents, although this was substantially lower than in 2022.
Only Los Angeles County had a greater population loss last year: 56,000 fewer residents in 2023, the largest reduction in the United States.
In the most popular destinations for migrants—counties in South Florida and counties containing Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Jose—international migration grew by double digits compared to the previous year.
The calculations do not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration, so it is impossible to know whether any portion of the growth was due to unauthorized border crossings. Arrests for illegal crossing reached a record high in December, but fell by half in January.
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2024-03-14 18:44:36
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