It will be difficult to stay afloat if we continue to receive this number of people said the city’s deputy mayor for health and humanitarian services, Anne Williams-Isom. This during the presentation with the asylum application help center about the state of the migration crisis in the city. According to the director of the mayor’s … Read more
A delegation led by New York congressmen Nydia Velázquez, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Adriano Espaillat visited the reception center installed in the Roosevelt Hotel, one of the first points of contact for asylum seekers when they arrive in the city, to see how is working. But the press conference after the tour of the facilities … Read more
%20ES%20LD%20MN%20Siena%20Migrant%20Poll%20CG_127424746_2162 "New Yorkers Support Federally Owned Spaces as Shelters and Work Authorization Regardless of Immigration Status: Sienna College Survey")
56% of New Yorkers support the use of federally owned spaces as shelters and 59% support work authorization regardless of immigration status, according to a Sienna College survey. The survey addressed topics related to the arrival of undocumented immigrants to New York City and the impact they cause on different areas of New York society. … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that he plans to move some migrant families with children to homeless shelters, a move that would be an apparent violation of the city’s right-to-housing laws. During an interview on PIX11, Adams said the move would be necessary because many asylum seekers continue to enter the city’s care. “In the … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams is asking city agencies to reduce their budgets by 15% by next spring. This, he says, to compensate for the increasing costs due to the massive arrival of immigrants in recent months. These are some of the most drastic municipal budget cuts in years. The municipal government estimates that the immigration crisis … Read more
The city and the state of New York are pressing the federal government more and more insistently to expedite the granting of work permits that will allow the more than 100,000 immigrants who have arrived in the Big Apple in fifteen months to get out of a care logic that is costing million dollars to … Read more
%20ES%20MN%20Siena%20College%20Poll%20CG_127226596_1796 "Immigrants in East Harlem: Progress, Perspectives, and Contrasting Views")
Over the last twenty years, immigrants have come to East Harlem in Manhattan from all sides. Puerto Rican Harrt Aponte, who has been working as a taxi driver for 47 years, says he has witnessed how many of his driver friends, Latin American immigrants, have progressed. “They have all their permits and they even own … Read more
The overwhelming majority of New Yorkers view the influx of immigrants into the state as a “serious problem,” according to a new Siena College poll. The poll questioned more than 800 registered New York voters. Of these, 54 percent say they would describe the situation of migrants as “very serious.” Another 28 percent say they … Read more
Melkin Bonilla, his wife Chantel and their five children spent a journey of more than thirty days to reach New York. They are Garífuna from Tela Honduras and since they got off the bus they have been admitted to the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan where they have received help. “Well, well, they give us food, … Read more
More buses have arrived transporting immigrants seeking asylum to New York City as we see in the images. The authorities indicated that of the more than 57,000 immigrants who are in the care of the city, 18,000 are children, so the city needs help from the federal government. Amanda Chirinos has only recently arrived and … Read more