New York Mayor Calls for Help as Migrants Seek Accommodation in the City

IMMIGRATION – Migrants who dream of finding accommodation in New York crowd the streets

” We need help. From now on, it can only get worse…”. These are the words of New York Mayor Eric Adams. The former police captain, at the head of the city since 2022, calls on the American government to come to his aid in the face of an influx of migrants.

Migrants sleep in front of hotels

Since April 2022, according to official figures, some 95,000 migrants, overwhelmingly from Central and South American countries, have arrived in the Big Apple, an incredible multicultural mosaic populated by 8.5 million souls. And this figure could still increase.

For several weeks, hundreds of young men from Senegal, Mauritania and neighboring countries have been piling up on a sidewalk in front of a hotel, in the hope of obtaining accommodation which the municipality is legally obliged to provide to any refugee, asylum seeker, economic migrant. “We arrived, we went through many countries to get there, and we suffered, we came here because we have confidence in this country, because we have confidence in the United States”, blows with AFP Abdoullahi Diallo, a 25-year-old Mauritanian. He says he took the plane to reach Turkey, then Nicaragua, before crossing the Mexican-American border by bus and on foot.