New York, December 18 New York Mayor Eric Adams this Sunday asked federal authorities for help in the face of what he hopes will be a massive influx of asylum seekers to the city following the end of a policy that allowed the United States expel most of the people who cross the southern border of the country.
According to Adams, the Big Apple is preparing to receive “starting today” a large number of buses from the border and to arrive in the city every week more than a thousand asylum seekers more than normal.
This year tens of thousands of people ended up in this situation in New York, mostly Venezuelans and many of them sent on chartered buses from Texas by the government of Republican Greg Abbott, who opted for this measure to spread the burdens and criticize the immigration policies of the Joe Biden administration.
“We have already welcomed more than 31,000 asylum seekers in our city and currently have 60 emergency shelters open, four humanitarian support centers and two reception centres. We have put thousands of children in schools and spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to clothe, feed, house and support this very needy population,” Adams said in a statement.
According to the mayor, New York now needs “urgent help” from state and federal authorities, which he accused of having “largely ignored” requests for support made so far.
“Our reception system is full and we are almost out of money, personnel and space”, insisted the Democratic politician, who asked Washington for any plans to transfer asylum seekers to other cities, to allow them to work or to “send aid to the city that has borne the brunt of this crisis.
The United States is preparing for the end of Title 42, the health regulation established by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), and maintained by the current government, which has so far allowed the expulsion of the majority of people crossing the southern border
Joe Biden’s government is having to abide by an order from a federal judge in Washington, DC, who ordered the regulations rolled back in mid-November, which he called “arbitrary and capricious.”
The end of this rule, which has blocked most asylum requests at the border, should lead to an increase in the number of people arriving in the southern United States hoping to seek refuge in the country.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has already outlined the strategy it will follow to deal with a greater arrival of migrants, but has ensured that the US system “is not designed” to deal with the current flow of migrants.
