New York City has redoubled its efforts to transport migrants out of the city as its shelter system is at capacity, and has created an office dedicated to providing asylum seekers with free one-way tickets. to anywhere in the world.
The city council confirmed the creation of a new relocation center in Manhattan in the latest attempt to relieve pressure on its shelters and finances after the arrival of more than 130,000 asylum seekers since last year.
“I never tire of saying it. We have run out of room,” she told reporters this week. “And it’s not a question of ‘if’ people will sleep on the streets, it’s a question of when. We are already at the limit of our capacity.”
The displacement will be voluntary
The city’s plan to offer transportation to migrants builds on previous efforts to send asylum seekers elsewhere, although the creation of the relocation center marks a renewed emphasis on the strategy.
The city has stressed that the displacement would be voluntary.
A spokeswoman for Adams said about 20,000 people have received 30- or 60-day notices. Less than 20% of people who have exceeded the limits remain in the city’s shelters, she added. City officials have said those statistics are proof that their policies are encouraging migrants to find alternative housing.
More than 200 shelters
Adams also seeks to suspend a legal agreement that requires New York City to provide emergency housing to homeless people. No other large U.S. city has such a requirement, and the mayor’s office has argued in court that the mandate was never intended to apply to an influx of migrants.
A judge this month ordered the city to begin mediation talks with homeless advocacy groups to find a solution.
The mayor’s office said it has set up more than 200 emergency shelters to house migrants, including renting space in hotels and building large-scale facilities. More than 65,000 immigrants are in shelters in the city.
Adams said he expects the arrival of migrants to cost about $12 billion over the next three years.
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After the end of Title 42, one of the main measures that New York City took to house the massive number of refugees arriving in the Big Apple was to open school gyms. One of them was public school 188, in Coney Island.
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During his decision-making amid the immigration crisis, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the Roosevelt Hotel would provide about 1,000 rooms for immigrants.
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The former Lincoln Correctional Center in Harlem was also reopened and transformed into a shelter for migrants. On June 1, it received the first asylum seekers, of the 500 it hopes to shelter.
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Two days after the immigrants arrived at the old Harlem prison, they had to be evacuated due to the alleged bursting of pipes. Some asylum seekers were taken to Albany and others to a former Catholic church in the East Village.
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An aircraft warehouse at JFK International Airport would be one of the spaces to continue locating immigrants, analyze Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul. However, the Immigrant Coalition does not see it as a good alternative.
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According to local authorities, more than 65,000 immigrants have arrived in New York and are occupying half of the hotels, which is also affecting tourism and, in turn, the local economy.
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With the aim of making things a little easier for undocumented immigrants recently arrived in the Big Apple, the organization “Se Hace Camino al Andar” and New York University launched a manual that offers them information about the health and housing systems.
2023-10-28 18:49:00
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