New York, Sep 9 (EFE).- The mayor of New York, Democrat Eric Adams, announced this Saturday budget cuts of 5% in all local government agencies due to projected spending on the immigration crisis, about 12 billion dollars in the next three years.
Since April 2022, some 110,000 immigrants have arrived in the city and the latest data indicates that the Administration is in charge of 60,000, including more than 20,000 children, whom it provides with shelter, food, health care, legal help and education for the minors.
Adams announced the cuts via statement and pre-recorded video after causing controversy this week by declaring that the flow of immigrants will destroy the city, to which local Republican politicians agreed with him while Democrats and activist groups accused him of fomenting hatred.
The mayor reiterated this Saturday his calls to the state and federal governments to “pay their share” in the cost of this crisis that he considers humanitarian and national, including accelerating the delivery of work authorizations for migrants and undertaking a “comprehensive immigration reform.” “.
In announcing today’s 5% cuts, Adams maintained that they will not involve layoffs but will affect available resources and vacant positions, and warned that he will “take additional actions to control spending and promote budget savings that will be announced in a Next future”.
Last year, the leader already announced a 3% budget cut in local agencies and another 4.75% for the current fiscal year, indicates the New York Post. The 5% cut is aimed at the coming years, the note specifies.
The city has had to juggle to house the new arrivals, whom it has placed in hotels, tents, soccer fields, old schools or gyms, and is evaluating other alternatives in the face of the continuous flow that in the last three weeks has surrounded the 3,000 people every week.
The city is required by a four-decade-old court order to provide shelter, food and other assistance, as well as education for the children, a situation that Adams says will lead to fiscal deficits, and has so far not received the financial aid that both he and Governor Kathy Hochul have demanded from the federal government. EFE
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2023-09-09 19:16:00
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