Mayor Eric Adams unveiled the new policy that will apply to asylum seekers who continue to arrive in the city.
Shelter stays for single adult applicants will now be limited to 60 days.
After that time they will have to find alternative housing, or reapply for shelter at the city arrival center just as new arrivals do.
However, the mayor assured them that welfare services will be provided to help them explore housing options.
Additionally, flyers will reportedly begin to be distributed to newcomers at the border to combat misinformation as the city cannot continue to offer the level of service it has been providing.
The Commissioner for Immigration Affairs spoke about this situation.
“A campaign is being announced to honestly communicate the situation in New York City to those who are thinking of coming,” said Commissioner Manuel Castro.
The authorities were very emphatic in stating that the city no longer has any more spaces. It currently cares for some 54,800 immigrant asylum seekers out of a total of 90,000 who have arrived in recent months and between 300 and 500 more people continue to arrive every day.
For Don José Nieves, newcomers have to look for their own future.
“At first they were in a hotel, then they took him out and that ‘how are they going to throw them from a hotel to a shelter’, they are helping them, we are paying taxes, it is okay that they require them to work,” said Don José.
“Everyone in the world has the same conditions, it is not good for them to come and stop drinking, smoking drugs, getting drunk and they do nothing to look for work,” added Nieves.
The city has opened 188 emergency shelters, including 360 humanitarian aid shelters, to serve more than 330 asylum-seeking families with children.
Mónica Adame says that she also arrived as an immigrant.
Adame.
“I am an immigrant, I am over 30 years old and since I arrived, working. Nobody here has given me a ‘break’,” said Adame.
And Luis Mayo shares the same opinion.
Mayo.
“They have to look for him, because they can’t be supported. They already gave them a chance to get here and they still come and do what they want, no,” Mayo said.
And remember that the best recommendation is to seek official information from the authorities and not get carried away by rumors.
2023-07-20 17:49:00
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