Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency in New York on Friday as the city struggles to respond to the influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Latin America.
In a speech at the city hall, Mr. Adams said the city was preparing to spend $ 1 billion to address the situation and requested federal and state funding to help pay for housing and services for migrants, who have the city’s homeless housing system was put to the test.
PHOTO DAVE SANDERS, NEW YORK TIMES
New York Mayor Eric Adams at a press conference in New York where he declared a state of emergency on Friday
“We need help and we need it now,” Adams said.
Mr. Adams, a Democrat in office since January, said the city is moving forward with plans to build a reception tent on Randalls Island in the East River just outside of Manhattan. City officials are also negotiating with cruise lines to host migrants aboard a ship.
Mr. Adams said the city has been overwhelmed by the approximately 17,000 migrants who have arrived since April and that he expected up to 100,000 eventually. At least nine other migrant coaches arrived on Thursday.
The city hall has set up 42 emergency shelters and enrolled 5,000 children in schools, the mayor said. But he added that he urgently needed further help to provide services to migrants.
Declaring a state of emergency would allow city officials to move faster to deliver services, Adams said. He added that the municipality was also looking for ways to send some migrants to other cities.
Management criticized
“A city recovering from a global pandemic is overwhelmed by a humanitarian crisis,” he said, adding that New York was “on the brink of a precipice.”
Mr. Adams has received criticism for his response to the crisis from homeless advocates and city council members, who disagree with efforts to house migrants in tents or shacks. They demanded that the empty hotels be used and that the residents of the shelters be moved to permanent accommodation as quickly as possible.
City officials are considering accommodating up to 2,700 migrants on a cruise ship and are in talks with three cruise lines, including Carnival Cruise Line, Frank Carone, the mayor’s chief of staff, said in a brief. interview with the town hall. The other two companies are Norwegian Cruise Line and Tallink, which host Ukrainian refugees in Estonia.
City officials are considering various locations for a cruise ship docking, including a dock on Staten Island called Homeport, located between the St. George Ferry Terminal and the Verrazzano Bridge.
Mr. Adams blamed Texas Governor Greg Abbott for not coordinating migrant arrivals with his administration and on Friday urged him to stop sending buses to New York and shift cargo to other cities.
“New Yorkers are angry,” Adams said. I am also angry. We didn’t ask. ”
A call for help
The mayor’s repeated calls for federal and state aid are also putting pressure on President Joe Biden and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, a month away from the November election.
When asked if he put Mr. Biden and Mr.myself Hochul in a difficult position, Mr. Adams replied: “No, not at all. ”
Mr. Adams said he recently spoke with Mr. Biden about the crisis and that Mr. Biden and Mr.myself Hochul understood the challenges facing the city.
They understand that this is an urgent situation and that New York needs help.
Eric Adams, maire of New York
Angelo Roefaro, spokesman for New York Democratic Party Senator Chuck Schumer, said his office was “in close communication with the Adams team and was working with the New York State delegation to obtain resources and ensure that the Biden administration did everything possible to be useful. ”
PHOTO PAUL RATJE, REUTERS
The family of Venezuelans Frederik Pinango and Julianis Contreras boarded a bus bound for New York at the Migrant Reception Center in El Paso, Texas on October 3.
On Friday, city officials said about a third of migrants arriving in New York want to go to other destinations, including many Venezuelan immigrants who have relatives or friends in Florida. Mr. Adams pointed out that the city was working to transport these migrants to other cities.
The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless released a statement saying they agree with the mayor that the city needs additional state and federal support, but that the city’s homelessness crisis had begun many. Years ago.
“The fact that the census of reception centers has never been higher is not only due to the influx of asylum seekers, the groups say. It is the city’s shameful historical inability to invest adequately in affordable housing that has continued to feed the mass homeless. ”
The groups also asked New York City to “abandon plans to build tent camps and focus on high-quality indoor shelter and permanent housing options.”
This article was originally published in New York Times.
Emma G Fitzsimmons
The New York Times
Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency in New York on Friday as the city struggles to respond to the influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Latin America.
In a speech at the city hall, Mr. Adams said the city was preparing to spend $ 1 billion to address the situation and requested federal and state funding to help pay for housing and services for migrants, who have the city’s homeless housing system was put to the test.
PHOTO DAVE SANDERS, NEW YORK TIMES
New York Mayor Eric Adams at a press conference in New York where he declared a state of emergency on Friday
“We need help and we need it now,” Adams said.
Mr. Adams, a Democrat in office since January, said the city is moving forward with plans to build a reception tent on Randalls Island in the East River just outside of Manhattan. City officials are also negotiating with cruise lines to host migrants aboard a ship.
Mr. Adams said the city has been overwhelmed by the approximately 17,000 migrants who have arrived since April and that he expected up to 100,000 eventually. At least nine other migrant coaches arrived on Thursday.
The city hall has set up 42 emergency shelters and enrolled 5,000 children in schools, the mayor said. But he added that he urgently needed further help to provide services to migrants.
Declaring a state of emergency would allow city officials to move faster to deliver services, Adams said. He added that the municipality was also looking for ways to send some migrants to other cities.
Management criticized
“A city recovering from a global pandemic is overwhelmed by a humanitarian crisis,” he said, adding that New York was “on the brink of a precipice.”
Mr. Adams has received criticism for his response to the crisis from homeless advocates and city council members, who disagree with efforts to house migrants in tents or shacks. They demanded that the empty hotels be used and that the residents of the shelters be moved to permanent accommodation as quickly as possible.
City officials are considering accommodating up to 2,700 migrants on a cruise ship and are in talks with three cruise lines, including Carnival Cruise Line, Frank Carone, the mayor’s chief of staff, said in a brief. interview with the town hall. The other two companies are Norwegian Cruise Line and Tallink, which host Ukrainian refugees in Estonia.
City officials are considering various locations for a cruise ship docking, including a dock on Staten Island called Homeport, located between the St. George Ferry Terminal and the Verrazzano Bridge.
Mr. Adams blamed Texas Governor Greg Abbott for not coordinating migrant arrivals with his administration and on Friday urged him to stop sending buses to New York and shift cargo to other cities.
“New Yorkers are angry,” Adams said. I am also angry. We didn’t ask. ”
A call for help
The mayor’s repeated calls for federal and state aid are also putting pressure on President Joe Biden and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, a month away from the November election.
When asked if he put Mr. Biden and Mr.myself Hochul in a difficult position, Mr. Adams replied: “No, not at all. ”
Mr. Adams said he recently spoke with Mr. Biden about the crisis and that Mr. Biden and Mr.myself Hochul understood the challenges facing the city.
They understand that this is an urgent situation and that New York needs help.
Eric Adams, maire of New York
Angelo Roefaro, spokesman for New York Democratic Party Senator Chuck Schumer, said his office was “in close communication with the Adams team and was working with the New York State delegation to obtain resources and ensure that the Biden administration did everything possible to be useful. ”
PHOTO PAUL RATJE, REUTERS
The family of Venezuelans Frederik Pinango and Julianis Contreras boarded a bus bound for New York at the Migrant Reception Center in El Paso, Texas on October 3.
On Friday, city officials said about a third of migrants arriving in New York want to go to other destinations, including many Venezuelan immigrants who have relatives or friends in Florida. Mr. Adams pointed out that the city was working to transport these migrants to other cities.
The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless released a statement saying they agree with the mayor that the city needs additional state and federal support, but that the city’s homelessness crisis had begun many. Years ago.
“The fact that the census of reception centers has never been higher is not only due to the influx of asylum seekers, the groups say. It is the city’s shameful historical inability to invest adequately in affordable housing that has continued to feed the mass homeless. ”
The groups also asked New York City to “abandon plans to build tent camps and focus on high-quality indoor shelter and permanent housing options.”
This article was originally published in New York Times.
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