New York, 21 Jan. New York Mayor Eric Adams announced today that the city will soon open its fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Aid Center to serve the approximately 1,000 single immigrant men who are arriving in the city, mostly from Venezuela.
The new center will be located at the cruise ship terminal in Brooklyn Borough and is part of the steps the city has been taking to address the wave of immigrants that have been arriving since last spring, on their own or sent on buses by the Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
According to Adams, there are already more than 41,000 people -adults and children- that the Big Apple has received, which has created a crisis because the public shelters are not prepared to hold so many people and the city does not have the financial resources.
The city has had to resort to contracting 77 hotels to house this population, many seeking asylum.
The center will provide various services to single adult men who will be transferred from the humanitarian aid center located at the Watson Hotel in Manhattan, as well as other newly arrived men, according to a statement from the mayor.
Adams also indicated that the center of the hotel will be used to provide services to families who arrive with children.
The Democratic mayor once again called for financial aid from the state and federal authorities to face the crisis that the city is experiencing with the arrival of immigrants.
“We continue to exceed our moral and legal obligations and meet the needs of people arriving in New York, but as the number of asylum seekers continues to grow, we seriously need the support of our state and federal governments,” he said.
Adams, who last week visited the US-Mexico border to see what is happening, has spent months calling for a national response to this situation and warning of the impact that taking care of all these people is having on the coffers of the town. EFE
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