Homeless encampment on Broadway, Union Sq, 2020.
Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy
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Thousands of undocumented immigrants “sent” in recent months to New York have taken over the shelters for homeless people in the city, which had already seen the number of homeless people on the streets rise for yearsMayor Eric Adams warned yesterday.
Immigrants seeking asylum are pouring into New York’s already overcrowded shelters as the nation’s immigration crisis continues to worsen, with nearly 3,000 arriving in recent weeks, warned the mayor.
Adams asked President Joe Biden to send “additional federal funds immediately” so the city can handle the overflow. “If we don’t get these resources that are needed urgently, we may struggle to provide the right level of support our users deserve, while also facing challenges as we serve both a rapidly growing shelter population and new asylum seekers,” the mayor said in a prepared statement. .
Adams said the additional immigration burden includes families “arriving on buses sent by the (Republican) governments of Texas and Arizona,” and other cases, he added, “it seems that the federal government sends people.”
At a men’s shelter in Midtown Manhattan, residents told the New York Post that have seen dozens of Hispanic immigrants arrive at the facilities since last month.
Adams became the second Democratic mayor of a major city in recent days to blame the federal government for the influx of immigrants into local homeless shelters.
On Sunday, the Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called the situation “a very important problem.” “For sure we have asked the federal government to work across state lines to prevent people from actually being tricked into getting on buses,” he said on the show. Face the Nation/CBS.
“We need some of those states that have been giving people one-way tickets … that understand that this needs to be a partnership in this country to deal with those who come here seeking refuge, asylum,” Adams said earlier Monday, conference press at City Hall.
“New York is going to do its part, but now we have an overloaded shelter system.” When pressed for details about the immigrants’ arrival in NYC, Adams said: “We need to investigate how they get the one-way tickets.”
In rejection, the Republican Governor Of Arizona, Doug Ducey wrote yesterday on Twitter: “Mayor Adams needs to get the facts straight and pay more attention to what is really going on because the security of our nation depends on it.” “The state of Arizona provides voluntary transportation for asylum seekers only to Washington, DC, not to New York,” he added.
Since October 1, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has apprehended more than 1.7 million migrants along the border with Mexico.according to official figures published last week.
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