24.05.2023
According to Mayor Eric Adams, $1 billion has already been spent providing shelter, food and basic medical services to 70,000 immigrants who have arrived in the city since last July.
The city of NY asked a court on Tuesday (05.23.2023) to temporarily suspend the rule that requires it to provide accommodation to all homeless people, a regulation that has attracted 70,000 immigrants to the city in ten months and has pushed the limits of the resources of the city.
The City Legal Department sent a letter to the Manhattan Supreme Court requesting that the law that has prevailed since 1984 (Callahan vs. Carey) be amended, without specifying how long the suspension would last, although Mayor Eric Adams specified in a statement that “we are in no way seeking to end the right to shelter”.
He flow of immigrants It has overwhelmed public shelters and the city is paying thousands of dollars a day to some 150 hotels that it has had to rent in the city and in some northern counties, where it has encountered resistance, to accommodate both families with children and the elderly. single adults.
According to the mayor, 1,000 million dollars have already been spent on providing them with various services in addition to the shelter, such as food, school places for minors who have arrived with their families, and minimal medical services.
Adams, who has repeatedly asked the federal government for financial aid and to expedite work permits for the thousands of immigrants he provides accommodation for, made it clear that with this judicial protection measure he seeks to implicate the Joe Biden government or, At least to other cities.
“Being dishonest about it will only result in the collapse of our system, and we need our partners in (federal) government to know the truth and do their part,” he said.
He said today’s action will allow them to “get clarity from the court and preserve the right to housing for the tens of thousands under our care.”
“We now have more asylum seekers in our care than homeless New Yorkers,” the mayor said.
A good part of those who arrived in New York have done so on trips organized by the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who has chartered buses from the border with Mexico with hundreds of immigrants, alleging that the “progressive cities” -New York, Washington and Chicago, with Democratic mayors – would have open arms for immigrants crowding the border.
However, of those three cities, New York is the only one that by law must provide mandatory housing to anyone.
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2023-05-24 01:54:35
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