Influx..

 

Mr. Adams said the influx was partly caused by migrant families “arriving on buses sent by the Texas and Arizona governments.”

The mayor’s comments created his latest political entanglement, this time against a national backdrop: His assertion began a back-and-forth with the governors of those states — much as a similar accusation from the Washington, D.C., mayor, Muriel Bowser, had drawn headlines a few days earlier.

But advocates for the homeless said that Mr. Adams’s strategy of blaming the entire spike in shelter population on migrants is a distortion that distracts from the city’s homeless crisis, leaving vulnerable families caught in the middle.