about forty families immigrants with children they will be the first to be homeless morning of hotel which has been their home since they arrived in New York, after the notification of the 60 days that the ciudad to find a place to live.
To the families, who are all staying in the Row NYC Hotelone of several hotels that are being used as hostels by authoritiesthey were instructed to leave their children at school, collect their belongings and leave the place.
If in the 60 days the city gave them they have not found a place to live, they must go to the prosecution for immigrants of the hotel Roosevelt para return to request hostel.
There they will be sent to a hostel temporary for another 60 days. The priority will be for the families just arrived.
Last October, the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, announced that because the ciudad It does not have enough space to house the thousands of immigrants that were arriving – in many cases sent by the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott – would limit the stay of singles to 30 days, which he later extended to families with 60 days, once they received the notification from ciudad.
Las families they had to leave the hotel after Christmasbut due to the date, it was extended until tomorrow.
Criticism of organizations proimmigrants
This policy has been widely criticized by organizations proimmigrantselected officials and educators, who today resumed their protests and they stated that it is an action inhumancruel traumatic for children, and they accused Adams of using immigrants for political purposes.
They asked the mayor once again to put an end to eviction and they also accused him of not having a plan to deal with the situation. Critics have strongly warned that immigrants They will end up sleeping in the streets.
“We cannot pretend to be a ciudad that supports the immigrants while we force the families newcomers to go out into the street in the middle of the freezing cold to look for a cama“said Councilor Shahana Hanif, president of the Immigration Committee, during a demonstration a few steps from the mayor’s office.
Immigrants who have lived in the streets and in hostels and they have moved forward, they asked the mayor stop the eviction in a conference which was interrupted by two men, one shouting loudly to close the door. frontera while accompanied by a cowbell, and the other who showed a sign that said that the immigrants undocumented people were here “to vote“.
In response, the large group shouted that “the immigrants are welcome here”, led by the ombudsman, Jumaane Williams, and raised their banners of support to the migrants to cover the one the man was showing.
Adams insists that immigrants have created a crisis prosecutor that ciudad – which has received more than 165,000 people in almost two years, of which some 70,000 are currently under its care – cannot continue to cope without help from the Government federal.
He assures, however, that his Administration is having success, and that the policies it is implementing are not going to have children and families sleeping on the street
2024-01-08 22:50:00
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