Since the spring of 2022, more than 100,000 migrants have set foot in New York, without always finding the welcome they were hoping for. Overwhelmed, the city’s mayor calls on the federal government for help.
Some $12 billion over three years. This is what the migration crisis should cost in New York, according to Eric Adams, mayor of the city. Since the spring of 2022, more than 100,000 migrants have set foot there. “Sanctuary City”, the big apple has an obligation – under the law – to provide temporary accommodation to those who request it. In fact, the beds are permanently missing. Theoretically guaranteed to sleep in a safe place once they arrive in the metropolis, hundreds of migrants have found themselves on the street in recent weeks.
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The Roosevelt Hotel has served as the setting for films such as Wall Street. Today, it is the symbol of the migration crisis in New York. Transformed into a reception center for asylum seekers last May, this hotel located in the heart of Manhattan, sees dozens of migrants gather outside its doors every evening.
After two weeks of waiting, Maïté, Ecuadorian, finally sleeps in one of the bedrooms. “I came to make my dreams come true, but it’s very complicated.
“I never thought I would find myself in this situation, having to sleep on the street…”
Maïté, Ecuadorian migrant
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Like the young woman, hundreds of people have, in recent weeks, slept crammed behind the barriers of the hotel.
Compassion but lack of solutions
Arriving from Colombia with his family a year ago, Charon, 16, is moved. “It makes me very sad (…) They had to go through a lot and they don’t have a roof over their heads. They deserve better after everything they’ve been through…”. A “infinite compassion” that the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, said to share in a recent press release, without being able to improve the situation because “the resources of the city are not [infinies]”continues the mayor.
“We have reached our limits”, he explains, calling on the US federal government for help. Very critical of his management, the American associations nevertheless remind the mayor of “the city that never sleepss” that the law obliges him to find a bed for the migrants who arrive in New York, however many there are.
In New York, crowded reception centers and migrants left on the street – the report by Loïg Loury
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2023-08-14 10:52:14
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