Catholic charities ‘strained’

New York City’s federation of Catholic Charities is being pushed to the limit by the massive number of migrants directed to its offices by Texas immigration authorities over the past six weeks, officials said Tuesday.

“We have been strained here at Catholic Charities in receiving over 1,500 people,” the nonprofit’s executive director, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, told reporters during a news conference in Manhattan.

Maryann Tharappel, who runs Catholic Charities’ special projects for immigrants and refugees, also said unspecified Texas officials were telling migrants to show up at its corporate headquarters in Sutton Place, its community services office in the Financial District and a neighborhood center in The Bronx.

“These are not residential addresses,” she said, joining Sullivan in a call for help from the Biden administration

“There is frustration in the upsurge in the past week,” Sullivan said. “But there is pride in being a New Yorker, that we’re stepping up to the plate.”

Archbishop Timothy Dolan also urged New Yorkers to show compassion to the migrants.

“These are not just refugees and asylum seekers in the plural. These are people with names, and with dads and moms,” he said.