New York Mayor Eric Adams, faced since 2022 with an influx of economic migrants and asylum seekers, called on the federal state on Thursday for more work permits so that these undocumented foreigners can realize their “American dream”.
“The American dream is the right to work, the right to provide for your family”, launched the city councilor, a former African-American policeman from the right wing of the Democratic Party, during a rally in a square in the south of Manhattan, surrounded by representatives of trade unions and employers’ organizations, in particular from the hotel and restaurant industry, and NGOs.
“We need to speed up [la délivrance] work visas. It’s common sense. There are thousands of jobs available that need to be filled, to provide the services we need for the city, New York State and the entire country,” he insisted.
At his side, Andrew Rigie, director of New York Hospitality Alliance, an organization of restaurateurs, bar owners, estimated at “10,000” the number of jobs available in this sector and for which he “cannot find Americans. , nor enough people [étrangères] authorized to work”.
While many fast food and food delivery businesses in New York run on cheap – and sometimes undocumented – labor, Rigie said it was “morally right” to fast-track licensing. work.
In addition, he told AFP, it would have “a strong economic impact to help small businesses recovering from the pandemic”.
At the beginning of August, Mr. Adams had estimated at 12 billion dollars over three years the cost that the migration “crisis” could represent in his megalopolis, faced since April 2022 with the arrival of 100,000 refugees, economic migrants and asylum seekers. from Latin America and recently from West Africa.
New York, a world city that has built its legend on successive waves of immigration, has a legal obligation to house and feed all newcomers, regardless of their status Currently, nearly 108,000 people are housed in hostels , hotels, vacant apartments. Some 56,000 are asylum seekers.
But the city of 8.5 million souls has been alerting New York State and the federal administration for a year to a “national crisis that it cannot manage alone”.
State Governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, was received Wednesday evening at the White House, which announced “support” measures in New York to identify all “migrants eligible for work permits”.
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