And when they parole into the country, if they come here to New York City, then our right to shelter laws kick into existence. And you had a system for sheltering people here, meeting that law that would accommodate 40, 50,000 people? Yes, when I came into office, we had 65,000 people in our care already. With the migrants and asylum seeker crisis, that's an additional 220,000 that overwhelmed the city. And the right to shelter law, we went to court and fought for this. (06:45–06:53)
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