VIDEO: NYC mayor tours asylum center and Martha’s Vineyard

(CBS) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other officials announced on September 15 the opening of New York City’s first Asylum Seeker Resource Navigation Center.

The center — operated by Catholic Charities of New York through a city contract — will support individuals and families who have arrived in New York City on or after January 1, 2022.

The center will serve as a central place where newly arrived asylum seekers will receive free and confidential help accessing a variety of important services and resources that will help them integrate and thrive in New York City.

The center — located in the American Red Cross of Greater New York headquarters — will open weekdays to provide individuals and families with in-person support, in Spanish and in other languages, as well as information on resources and services available.

"We are not going to be like those municipalities and states where we fly people to Martha's Vineyard, where we put people on buses and have them fail to get the basic items they need. This is a crisis, and during crises there are two types of New Yorkers. There are are those who play I got you, and stay on the outside and complain and then there are those who roll up their sleeves and just get stuff done. That's who we are," said Mayor Adams.

So it doesn't matter if you came here on the Mayflower or on a bus at the Port Authority. You deserve the dignity and respect that this city continues to show," Mayor Adams also mentioned.

"The Republican Party, they have created a blueprint that all of them are starting to follow. It's inhumane. For the governor to send immigrants to Martha's Vineyard without any coordination, it's just creating real real crises and that is the problem that we shared to our lawmakers in Washington that this is a blueprint that you're going to see start unfolding," Mayor Adams had stated.