What Is NYC’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations, Whose Leader Got a Visit From the Feds?
21st September 2024
Federal law enforcement officials served a subpoena to the director of the New York City’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations on Friday, adding yet another twist to the ongoing investigations into Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
The building where the director’s parents live also got a visit from law enforcement, according to surveillance footage provided to Gothamist.
The office Molly Schaeffer leads was launched in March 2023 as part of Adams’ response to the influx of migrants to the city. When the office was established, Adams said it would focus on the city’s ongoing efforts to provide “resettlement and legal services,” along with a new “24/7 arrival center for asylum-seekers.”
One of these days a government employee is going to be seized by an Attack of Honesty and call their workplace the Office of Handing Out Your Money to People Who Don’t Deserve it.