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A large number of asylum seekers have been outside the city’s arrival intake center sleeping on the sidewalk as they wait to be assigned a shelter to sleep in a bed, if one is available. With an average of 300 to 500 people arriving per day, the city is taking clampdown new measures, like giving unaccompanied immigrants already in the city’s care a 60-day notice to find another roof over their heads.”As of July 30, we have 107,900 people in our care, including 56,600 asylum seekers. More than 95,600 people have passed through our system since last spring,” says New York Deputy Mayor Williams-Isom.
NEW YORK — Hundreds of asylum seekers stand outside the city’s arrival reception center, where many have waited for days for a place to sleep, if one is available.
Many of the immigrants who sleep in the streets of the city center in front of the Roosevelt Hotel in East 45th Street y Madison Avenuemost of whom are single men, say their place in line has not advanced as New York City officials explore all possible options for housing the new arrivals.
Time has stopped for men like José Gregorio, who on Wednesday waited in the same place where our sister network NBC 4 New York found him two days before.
“I was here almost 24 hours ago and the line hasn’t grown. It’s the same number of people for the last 24 hours, so it seems like they keep these people for whatever reason,” she said.
City officials confirmed that immigrants could soon be living in other iconic areas of the city, including places like Central Park.
“Everything is on the table,” New York Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom said Wednesday. “As of July 30, we have 107,900 people in our care, including 56,600 asylum seekers. More than 95,600 people have passed through our system since last spring.”
According to the city’s tracking, more than 2,300 migrants entered its system in just one week between July 24 and 30.
Luis Garcia told NBC 4 New York that he is happy to have food and water, and that sleeping on the street for two and a half days is not that bad because he has slept on the street since he left Venezuela.
Even if some of the new arrivals don’t mind waiting on the street, the Legal Aid Society says the conditions violate the city’s right to housing. The City Council said the focus should be on the lack of state and government assistance, rather than targeting Mayor Eric Adams.
“His administration has doubled and tripled strategies that don’t work and never did, but one thing that has changed is the mayor’s rhetoric. It’s not welcoming anymore,” said Murad Awawdeh of the New York Immigration Coalition.
City officials denied that leaving people in line is a ploy to send a message to the federal government or migrants at the border that New York has no space.
2023-08-03 02:56:59
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