The Alcaldía of NY has once again asked the city’s Supreme Court to “modify or temporarily suspend” a law of 1981 which obliges him to provide shelter to any person who requests it in order to respond to the migration crisis which has attracted 122,700 to the city immigrants in a year and a half.
The request of the Alcaldía coincides with a trip that the mayor Eric Adams embarks today to four countries latin americans -Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama- to “counteract the campaigns” that promise all kinds of advantages to those who travel to NY: “We just want to give them a real narrative that the shelters are full and that they will not automatically find employment,” Adams said yesterday.
The mayor’s legal department filed a new motion with the court last night arguing that NY “has done more than any other city in the last 18 months to respond to this humanitarian crisis,” but “the explosive pace of new entries into the city’s care (services) shows no signs of slowing.”
“There is a global perception that (the law of 1981) extends to the entire planet a general right to obtain a accommodation provided by the city,” states the motion, which complains that the entry of immigrants responds to “forces that originate entirely outside the city and largely outside the United States.”
Of the immigrants arrived at NY In this year and a half a large majority are latin americans -mainly Venezuelans-, but in recent months arrivals of hundreds of people from West Africa (Mauritania, Senegal or Mali) have also been detected, in addition to places as remote as Pakistan or Bangladesh.
The massive arrival of immigrants has cost the city $2.1 billion and is “consuming the city’s ability to address other urgent problems,” as it will lead to cutouts in other items that can reach up to 15% in the next six months.
Furthermore, the mandatory opening of all types of accommodations for newcomers is creating “resistors “violent actions to the creation of new shelters”, while other counties in the same state of NY They also oppose “fierce resistance” to taking charge of the problem.
In short, the Alcaldía remembers that the 1981 law appeared at a time when circumstances were radically different and therefore calls for its modification or temporary suspension, but not its elimination, the text states.
The Alcaldía has already requested a similar measure on two previous occasions (in May and July) from the same court, which so far has not ruled, but as the months go by the migration crisis It has only gotten worse, with only timid attempts by the state or federal governments to intervene to help the city, which have not served to reduce the migratory flow.
2023-10-04 16:43:00
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