Just when you thought the migrant crisis was in New York City’s rear-view mirror, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has slammed us into reverse.

He’s ordered the city’s homeless services agencies to start dismantling the migrant shelter system, setting a Feb. 19 deadline for their plan — while simultaneously letting asylum seekers continue staying in city shelters without time limits, as indefinite long-term guests of the taxpayers.

For years, migrant shelters have operated alongside, not within, the city’s traditional homeless shelter system.

Mayor Eric Adams issued repeated emergency orders to relax the regulations that ordinarily apply to homeless shelters, such as requiring an in-unit kitchen for every family group, to handle the migrant flood.

Mamdani wants to bring migrant shelters into full compliance with those rules, essentially keeping the remaining ones open as homeless shelters.

Of the quarter-million migrants who arrived in NYC since 2022, 31,629 were still in city shelters as of November.

That’s a long way from the peak of nearly 69,000 in January 2024, but the migrants have swelled the city’s shelter population, still making up about 30% of the nearly 102,000 people living in city shelters today.

Each migrant household costs the city $370 per night —........

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