The city of NY opened this Sunday (08.20.2023) its largest center for people migrants newcomers, which will accommodate up to 3,000 single adults, on a soccer field on Randall’s Island in Manhattan.
He Humanitarian Emergency Response and Aid Center Randall Island (HERRC) consists of four air-conditioned sleeping tents with attached beds with a capacity for two thousand people, while showers and toilets were located nearby.
The tents will begin to receive this Sunday the first 300 immigrants who were in transitory shelters. However, due to the large number of people who are arriving in the city – between 300 and 500 per day – another tent has already begun to be erected, to expand the capacity to 3,000 single adults, mainly men.
Imagen: Mary Altaffer/AP/picture alliance
The Center also has a tent where they are received and routinely tested for COVID-19 and tuberculosis, among other health care, and are given an identity card. Another tent is for eating, where they have food 24 hours a day, and in another the laundry was located.
“This is not the solution for the next two, three or four months, (but) it’s giving us a little bit of a breather for the next few days,” Christina Farrell, deputy commissioner for the Office of Emergency Management, said during a visit to with the press to see the new hostel.
On August 14, the Administration of Mayor Eric Adams opened a 1,000-man shelter in the parking lot of a disused psychiatric hospital and has already welcomed at least 500 immigrants.
Since the arrival of immigrants began in 2022, New York has received more than 100,000 people, of which some 60,000 are under its care, to whom it provides shelter, food, health care and education for children.
Adams has made repeated calls for financial assistance and for work permits for the thousands of immigrants to the Government of President Joe Biden, but has not received a response. According to the mayor, attention to immigrant groups has created a humanitarian crisis and is undermining the city’s finances.
The flow of immigrants since the spring of 2002 has forced New York to open 202 emergency centers throughout the five boroughs, some dedicated exclusively to families with children. Also, it has had to adopt measures such as limiting the stay in shelters to 60 days, a period of time in which the person must look for accommodation and, if they cannot find it, they must begin the process of re-applying for shelter.
Adams also removed the two-month requirement that a homeless New Yorker must be in a shelter to qualify for assistance paying for an apartment, in order to have space available in the city’s shelters for families. The mayor has warned that this humanitarian crisis will cost the city some 12 billion dollars over three years.
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2023-08-21 00:05:27
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