After requests for federal help to deal with the immigration crisis from both the city and state governments, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, responded through two letters, obtained by Politico, and asked New York to improve the collection of data in the admission of migrants and during their stay in shelters, improve legal advice for work permit processes and how to get out of shelters and focus on better management of migrant cases. In her weekly press conference, the deputy mayor said…
“I think they should help us relocate people across the state. I think there was a compromise for that to happen. I also believe that people should be resettled throughout the country. That is what the decompression strategy means,” said Anne Williams-Isom, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Resources.
The immigration crisis in the Big Apple has generated criticism from the mayor’s office towards the governor for not relocating migrants to other counties, while Governor Hochul attributed the failure to poor coordination by Mayor Adams. The three governments have engaged on two fronts: the location of migrant shelters in federal and state areas and the expediting of work permits, which is a federal power. This Panamanian migrant says that he has been in the city for six months, he lives in a shelter and although he has already applied for asylum, he still has to wait.
“My personal is in process, there are 4 months of waiting, I have three months left.”
Mayorkas also said that he provided a federal hangar at the JF Kennedy airport and that he identified 11 other properties, while the contract to activate the Floyd Bennet airfield as a temporary shelter progresses. The federal reprimand, however, does not resolve the situation of the thousands of migrants who continue to arrive in the city, responded a spokeswoman for the mayor’s office.
Mayorkas also added that they are studying to improve operational efficiency, technology and increase personnel to expedite the processing of employment authorization.
2023-08-31 19:59:04
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