https://nypost.com/2023/11/29/opinio...100-years-ago/
^^^^The article explains how things were handled 100 years ago. The author them makes a case for doing the exact same thing today.
From the article:
"A century ago, New York and other cities faced a migrant crisis that has striking parallels to the present one.
And the solution for overwhelmed communities then remains the only one that’ll work now — the federal government must humanely, but credibly, scale immigration back to a more sustainable level."