The governor of the state of NY, Kathy Hochulsent this Thursday a letter to the president of the United States, Joe Bidenasking that the federal government “fulfill your obligation” and pay aid “urgent” in the crisis unleashed by the massive arrival of immigrants in the last few months.
Hochul, under fire for her apparent inaction as the city of NY face the crisis -over 100,000 immigrants arrived in a year and a half – now raises the tone in a formal letter to the White House with demands: that they speed up the permissions job for applicants asylumincreased financial assistance and reimbursement of certain spents, as well as spaces that serve as shelters.
Among other things, he proposed executive actions such as granting Temporary Protection Status (TPS) specifically to applicants from Venezuela and permissions on humanitarian grounds to those of other countries.
He also thanked the money federal funds of 145 million dollars received, but stressed that they fall short when the high costs that the state and the city are incurring make project a spent of 4,500 million next year, and 12,000 million in total until 2025, while the tax collection falls.
And spent monthly of 22 million
Only in the deployment of operatives of the National Guard for the humanitarian responsethe state is spending 22 million monthly, which according to Hochul should assume the federal government.
The arrival of more than 100,000 immigrants In the last year, it has continued at a “high and unstoppable” rate, of hundreds and even thousands per week, he said, for which reason “the federal government must work with the city and state (of NY) in the management of this crisis humanitarian”, as there is a “urgent need“, he urged.
According to her, the state and local administration assured that they are “deploying all the resources and personnel available” but qualified that “without any capacity or responsibility to address the cause of the migrant flow, New Yorkers cannot then bear the costs.”
“I can’t ask New Yorkers to pay for what is fundamentally responsibility federaland finally to federal government taking fast action and significant today to meet its obligation to the state of NY“, he sentenced.
The governor’s pressure on Washington comes when they seem to be lowering their popularity and the mayor, Eric Adams, for his response to the crisis migration, an issue in which the Mayor’s Office has redoubled communication efforts this week to try to convey the work that is being done.
Two organizations involved in the aid to the immigrantsThe Legal Aid Society and the coalition for the Homeless, endorsed Hochul’s call for Biden, while denouncing the “political blockade in Washington that hinders a national solution“.
But they insisted on responsibility from Hochul herself: “More is urgently needed aid of the state to prevent people from being left languishing in the streets, since the constitutional provisions on which the right to refuge apply to the state the same as to the city”.
2023-08-24 20:29:00
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