NYC opens door to housing migrants indefinitely in Randalls Island tent camp: 'There is no limit'

Top Adams administration officials opened the door Tuesday to indefinitely housing Latin American migrants in a tent camp on Randalls Island, walking back a previous time-restricted policy as questions mount about other aspects of the controversial facility, including how much it’ll cost taxpayers.

In announcing the tent plan last month, Mayor Adams’ team said migrants would only stay in the “temporary” facilities for upward of 96 hours before being placed in homeless shelters or other forms of housing.

But Dr. Ted Long, a top official in the city Health Department, backpedaled on that policy after he and other administration officials brought reporters on a Tuesday afternoon tour of the Randalls facility.

“There is no limit to how long people that are seeking asylum can stay in this facility,” Long told reporters in a post-tour press conference.

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