NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that she had sent a letter to the White House asking for more support for migrants pouring into New York, placing responsibility for the crisis at President Biden’s feet in her first major address on the challenge.

Speaking from the state Capitol building as her governorship enters its third year, Hochul said she would not force upstate communities to take migrants and declared the state does not have good options to handle the situation without federal support.

“Bearing much-needed changes at the border, there does not appear to be a solution,” Hochul said in a nine-minute speech. “This crisis originated with the federal government, and it must be resolved by the federal government.”

Hochul, who has faced growing political pressure to step up and help the city with the crisis, stopped short of making any new significant state commitments in the speech.

Her three-page letter to Biden asks the federal government to provide funds, expedite asylum seekers’ work permits and provide more facilities.

The White House did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

More than 100,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City since spring 2022, according to city government figures. About 60,000 remain in the city’s care, the city reported Wednesday.

In a year, the count of people sleeping in the city’s over-stretched shelter system has roughly doubled.

With waves of arrivals showing no signs of abating, the Adams administration has said that by 2025 support for the migrants may cost $12 billion.

Last month, a crowd of asylum seekers slept outside an intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The city has opened more than 200 new shelter sites, including 15 so-called humanitarian relief centers.

Mayor Eric Adams has called on the state to pitch in more resources, and has embarked upon a controversial city-run busing program that has drawn fierce resistance and lawsuits from some upstate localities.

City Hall has also urged Hochul to use executive powers to force reluctant communities outside the city to take in migrants, an approach supported by advocates but spurned by the governor.

“We cannot and will not force other parts of our state to shelter migrants,” Hochul said in her Thursday remarks.

Hochul has at times defended the busing program, but her office last week condemned an Aug. 7 transfer of 77 asylum seekers to Rochester, claiming some migrants were moved against their will. The Adams administration disputes the state’s account.

On Tuesday, 40 more migrants, including 22 children, were bused to a Holiday Inn in downtown Rochester, according to WROC-TV.

As Adams has ramped up pressure on Hochul to help more, tension has seemed to boil between the two moderate baby boomer Democrats, who are aligned on many issues and take pride in the warm public relationship.

Their handling of the crisis is under the microscope in a Manhattan Supreme Court case centered on the city’s right-to-shelter responsibilities. And in filings in the case the city and state have traded criticisms and gripes, each painting the other’s approach as insufficient.

The mayor’s office did not immediately comment on Hochul’s speech.