A hard-fought deal to use national parkland in Brooklyn for an emergency shelter for migrants is being challenged in court by a group of bipartisan lawmakers.
The New York City comptroller is auditing a no-bid $432 million migrant-services contract, and is weighing whether to scrap the mayor’s blanket approval to enter such contracts.
Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, refused to approve the $432 million contract, questioning the qualifications of DocGo, the medical services company awarded the contract.
Security firms hired by DocGo, a medical services firm that was given a $432 million no-bid migrant services contract by New York City, used unauthorized guards.
The roughly 91,000 migrants who were arrested after crossing together as families exceeded a record set in May 2019, the height of the border crisis during the Trump administration.