![]() Waves of Russians have been making their way to the Mexico-US border seeking asylum - and have ended up in New York City, which has the largest Russian-speaking immigrant population, including many Jewish refugees, officials noted. The mayor, immigration experts and city lawmakers representing the post-Soviet Union diaspora say the Russia-Ukraine war is driving an exodus of citizens from both countries to the US A Russian immigrant woman with her baby in Manhattan on September 2, 2023. City Hall is monitoring immigration court proceedings to track the migrant flow. ![]() The US Department of Justice immigration court statistics were retrieved by Mayor Eric Adams’ Office of Immigrant Affairs from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Meanwhile, data shows there were only a few hundred cases of Russians in asylum/deportation proceedings going back every year to 2001 - meaning the numbers surged nearly 10-fold since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 30, 2022.Īs of Sunday, the number of asylum cases involving Russian nationals jumped to 8,002 for the current fiscal year running from Oct. There were 3,098 cases involving Russian nationals in New York immigration court for the federal fiscal year covering Oct. The number of Russians with cases in New York State Immigration Court - which rules on asylum/deportation cases - has skyrocketed 158% over the past year, the data reveals. Rockland County officials complain 31 migrants living in one-family ‘flophouse’Īdams administration drops scores of lawsuits against upstate NY towns refusing migrantsĬartels sending migrant mobs of thousands to overwhelm the US borderĪ record number of Russians have fled their homeland and are seeking asylum in New York amid Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine - adding to the Big Apple’s massive migrant crisis, data obtained by the Post shows. NYS suffers from sky high costs, crime and migrant crisis: Poll ![]()
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