NEW YORK — The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, increased this Tuesday the jobs available for immigrants who have obtained work permits in the United States to 32,000, almost double those announced at the beginning of the month after a state initiative to identify employers.
“We have now identified, this is new information, 32,000 jobs waiting for Venezuelans who until now have not been able to work,” Hochul said Tuesday at an event in Manhattan, according to the local newspaper The New York Post.
The figure has not been officially announced and the governor’s office did not respond to questions from EFE.
In any case, the figure is much higher than the 18,000 jobs that Hochul said he identified with 400 employers on October 2, after ordering the Department of Labor to study what vacant positions immigrant workers could fill to help them leave the shelter system.
The governor said on Tuesday that the massive arrival of immigrants to New York in the last year and a half is “the largest migration of humanity after World War II” and recognized the “frustration” of the population, in response to what she said she expected that the “solutions” that the authorities are looking for are perceived.
“We are going to have opportunities for people to find good-paying jobs here in New York state, which is what they came for,” she added, quoted by the Post.
On September 20, President Joe Biden’s Administration announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months for Venezuelans – the largest group of those who have emigrated to New York – allowing them to live and work in this country without fear of deportation.
Since spring 2022, when the immigration crisis began, more than 130,600 immigrants have arrived in the city, most of them Latin Americans, and of them more than 64,000 are under the city’s care, which includes accommodation, daily meals, medical services and schooling for more than 20,000 children.
New York City estimates that this TPS extension could benefit more than 15,000 Venezuelans, who could find jobs within a month.
But as revealed in public hearings of the municipal legislature last week, only about 2,100 immigrants hosted in the city have requested work permits, of them about 300 Venezuelans.
2023-10-25 03:14:06
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